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lumps of delight

lumps of delight noun: turkish delight.

Noun

lumps of delight pl (plural only)

  1. (UK, archaic, plural, plural-only) Turkish delight
    • Twelve "lumps of delight," as the Mussulman — not mussel man — calls his sweetmeats!1861, Herbert Byng Hall, The Oyster, page 16
    • Rosa replies: “I want to go to the Lumps-of-Delight shop.”
      “To the—?”
      “A Turkish sweetmeat, sir. My gracious me, don’t you understand anything? Call yourself an Engineer, and not know that?”1870 April–September, Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1870, →OCLC

Questions about lumps of delight

What does lumps of delight mean?
Lumps of delight means turkish delight.
What part of speech is lumps of delight?
Lumps of delight is a noun.

Words near lumps of delight in the dictionary

  1. lumpman
  2. lumpmen
  3. lumprice
  4. lumps
  5. lumps it
  6. lumps of delight
  7. lumps the lighter
  8. lumps together
  9. lumpsome
  10. lumpsucker
  11. lumpsuckers

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