delicacy

Example Sentences

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Edible snails - or escargot - are a French delicacy, usually cooked in garlic butter or wine before being extracted from their shell.

From BBC

The smell of burgers, brats and other grilled delicacies wafted through the air as children played football on the grass and a nearby patch of dirt.

From Los Angeles Times

With those things in mind, Capote carefully describes each mouth-watering delicacy as if filling a stage set.

From The Wall Street Journal

At an eel restaurant near Tokyo, four friends sit down to eat a Japanese delicacy now the subject of a heated international debate as its numbers decline.

From Barron's

They are used to supply farms where they are fattened up for sale in Asia where eels are a highly sought delicacy.

From Barron's