delicatesse
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Thus, in our times, refinement and delicatesse are not only attended to sufficiently, but threaten to eat us up, like a cancer.
From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman
Fear grace, elegance, civilization, delicatesse, Fear the mellow sweet, the sucking of honey juice, Beware the advancing mortal ripening of Nature, Beware what precedes the decay of the ruggedness of states and men.
From The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
No, I am afraid it will not," said Madame Mohl, "for remember we are en froid, not merely en delicatesse.
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. Hare
She is a young lady now, delicatesse, consommé, and all the rest of it in a refined way, and I don't want to show myself to her in such an abject state.
From The Chorus Girl and Other Stories by Constance Garnett
Fear grace, elegance, civilization, delicatesse, Fear the mellow sweet, the sucking of honey—juice, Beware the advancing mortal ripening of Nature, Beware what precedes the decay of the ruggedness of states and men.
From Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
