exquisite
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Sir Max, one of the keenest wits and sveltest exquisites of the 1890s, came into the late Victorian world when Oscar Wilde was just a lily-loving boy and Dante Gabriel Rossetti a doddering gaffer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Grinding stones showed that Neolithic exquisites had used pigments for painting or cosmetics.
From Time Magazine Archive
Muscadins of Paris, Paris exquisites, who aped the London cockneys in the first French Revolution.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
So long as they can keep up fashionable appearances and elude the kind hearted police whose good will they generally have, they are received into the company of the upper ten exquisites with marked complacency.
From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by Judson, L. Carroll
The homage of the young exquisites of society bored her inexpressibly; it was absolutely odious to her.
From Erlach Court by Schubin, Ossip
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