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• Among other native delicacies, they give you fresh char.From the entry char
• Flamingo tongues were considered a delicacy in Ancient Rome.From the entry flamingo tongue
• Nelson’s Food Pride, which specializes in Swedish delicacies from its home in Oakland, the state’s Swedish Capital.2025 January 14, Paul Hammel, “Get ready for ‘state dessert’”, in Victoria Ayotte, editor, Kearney Hub, volume 137, number 14, Kearney…. From the entry ostkaka
• Some carpet sharks find cloth an irresistible delicacy and chew holes in the fabric.2021, Kim Schilling, Ferrets For Dummies, page 78. From the entry carpet shark
• I remember sitting by a fountain eating custard tarts, a local delicacy.2019 December 31, Joanna Kavenna, “Notes from an author: Joanna Kavenna on Macau”, in National Geographic, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry São Lourenço
• Rat salami became a delicacy, and butchered cats were sold as "gutter rabbits.”2019, Kathleen Sears, Socialism 101, page 76. From the entry gutter rabbit
• Chaudin is a delicacy of French influence, originating in the bayous of southern Louisiana.2018, Jonathan Deutsch, We Eat What? A Cultural Encyclopedia of Unusual Foods in the United States, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 64. From the entry chaudin
• The tucumã is an Amazonian fruit that is used as the filling for this typical Northern delicacy.2017 December, Instituto Brasil a Gosto, translated by Julia Debasse, Olívia Fraga, and Patrícia Oyama, “Breads and ‘Quitandas’”, in…. From the entry tucumã
• I didn't know what either of these delicacies were, but I knew I wanted them.2014 February 14, Tim Lott, “I hate shopping for food at the supermarket”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2015. From the entry calisson
• Now's your chance to also taste the other local delicacy, stroopwafel.2008, Marybeth Bond, Best Girlfriends Getaways Worldwide, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Books, →ISBN, page 201. From the entry stroopwafel
• I was after a taste of chaudin, a legendary local delicacy made of a stuffed pig's stomach.2008, Dale Volberg Reed, John Shelton Reed, John T. Edge, Cornbread Nation 4: The Best of Southern Food Writing, University of Georgia…. From the entry chaudin
• Chevon is sold in finer restaurants as a delicacy for huge prices.2006, Mary Turner Stille, The Goat Care Handbook, 2nd edition, unnumbered page. From the entry chevon
• These are the delicacies made by the Chinese into bird’s-nest soup.2003 August 10, Georgia Tasker, “Borneo an unbelievable place to visit”, in The Santa Fe New Mexican, 154th year, number 222, Santa Fe…. From the entry bird's-nest soup
• Modern-day residents of the Ukok eat kurdyuk, and consider it a delicacy.1998, Janet Buell, Ancient Horsemen of Siberia, Twenty-First Century Books (CT). From the entry kurdyuk
• Louis hounds, and trufflers—terriers specially trained to dig up the popular delicacy of the day.1994, David Comfort, The First Pet History of the World, New York, N. Y.: Fireside, →ISBN, page 128. From the entry ailurophobiac
• It distressed him, Joe said, to see them feeding like animals, without delicacy.a. 1968 (date written), Walter Macken, “The Dreamer”, in The Grass of the People, Dingle, Co. Kerry: Brandon, published 1998, →ISBN, page…. From the entry stroke
• They lived chiefly on fish and roots, with now and then a delicacy such as grasshopper pie.1964, Robert Edgar Riegel, Robert G. Athearn, America Moves West, page 299. From the entry grasshopper pie
• The young birds are also regarded as a table delicacy by the natives and many white men.1938, Federal Writers’ Project, Birds of the World: An Illustrated Natural History, […], Chicago, Ill.: Junior Press Books, Albert Whitman…. From the entry cockroachy
• Their screeches heralded excited talk from the hurrying troops, for flying fox is a delicacy.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 154. From the entry fox
• Another common bush delicacy was the alunqua, some call it the bush cucumber.1937, Michael Terry, Sand and Sun: Two Gold-hunting Expeditions with Camels in the Dry Lands of Central Australia. From the entry alunqua
• The delicacy comes from Seattle and sells at $1.75 a quart.1927 January 2, L.H.R., “Old Year Completes Job and Hobbies Hence”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry ice-creamless
• For lightness and delicacy the masoncraft of Gloucester had no rivals at the time.1926, Oxfordshire Record Series - Volumes 8-9, page 40. From the entry masoncraft
• Many people are able to imagine word-sounds with greater delicacy and discrimination than they can utter them.1925, I.A. Richards, Principles of Literary Criticism, page 119. From the entry word sound
• This latter class at the time possessed the delicacy of the Hamburg fish-mongress of to-day.1916, Heinrich Böhmer, “Luther as a Scholar and Author”, in Carl F. Huth, Jr., transl., Luther in Light of Recent Research, New York…. From the entry fish-mongress
• We must be content to signalize a by-stroke of sympathetic delicacy.1907, Caroline Lane Reynolds Slemmer Jebb (lady.), Arthur Woollgar Verrall, Life and letters of Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, O. M., LITT.…. From the entry by-stroke
• I really love it in ice cream and pudding; if you haven't had these delicacies, do it now.2023 August 22, Emily Weinstein, “Grilled to a Char, Creamed With Coconut, Livened With Lime and Piled on Pasta”, in The New York Times…. From the entry elote
• Nevertheless, stink beans remain popular as a form of delicacy among Southeast Asians whether they are eaten cooked or raw.2020, Yoong-Kong How, Lee-Fong Siow, “Effects of convection-, vacuum- and freeze-drying on antioxidant, physicochemical properties…. From the entry stink bean
• For not only are computers as dumb as a billion marbles, they’re also positively Stradivarian in their delicacy.2015, Paul Ford, "What Is Code?", section 2.3, in Bloomberg Businessweek, June 11, 2015. From the entry Stradivarian
• Like animals we wolve down these delicacies.2015, Donald E. Graves, Blood and Steel 3: The Wehrmacht Archive: The Ardennes Offensive, December 1944 to January 1945, Barnsley, South…. From the entry wolve down
• According to ancient folklore, even the most devout vegetarian will abandon his faith for a sampling of these delicacies.2013 April 11, Yeou-Jey Hsu, “36 Hours in Taipei, Taiwan”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN…. From the entry fotiaoqiang
• Sherbet was considered a delicacy, and it and other refined drinks were mentioned in detail by a number of travelers.2008, Anna Suranyi, The Genius of the English Nation: Travel Writing and National Identity in Early Modern England, pages 101–102. From the entry sherbet
• Bird’s-nest soup is what it sounds like, and is held as a great delicacy and status symbol in China.2008 January 23, Lynne Rossetto Kasper, “Flair, not flavor in bird’s-nest soup dish […]”, in The Herald-Sun, Durham N.C.: Durham Herald…. From the entry bird's-nest soup
• Katogo is that meal, a Ugandan delicacy, prepared from a mixture of foodstuffs like matooke, cassava, beans, greens, meat etc.2006, Pecos Kutesa, Uganda’s Revolution, 1979–1986: How I Saw It, Kampala, Uganda: Fountain Publishers, →ISBN, page 222. From the entry katogo
• “A real delicacy,” he said, with a boyish smirk.2003, Brian Herbert, “Xanadu”, in Dreamer of Dune, New York: Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 259. From the entry aghast
• Along this leg one usually can find hot-dogs, knishes and assorted Newyorkian nosh delicacies purchasable from pushcart stands.1997, Cy A Adler, “Leg 2 — West 42nd Street to 125th Street”, in Walking the Hudson, Batt to Bear: From the Battery to Bear Mountain: […]…. From the entry Newyorkian
• The chef, hearing that the French considered frog a delicacy, went out and defrogged every pond in the city.1981, Gus McLeavy, Bathroom Almanac, Frederick Fell Pub, →ISBN. From the entry defrog
• Josepha decided that there was a lean look about her figure, a dieted slenderness rather than the natural delicacy of youth.1934, Olga Rosmanith, Picture People, page 237. From the entry dieted
• Izumi Shikibu's Diary is written with extreme delicacy of treatment.1920, Annie Shepley Omori, Kochi Doi, “Translators’ Note”, in Annie Shepley Omori, Kochi Doi, transl., Diaries of Court Ladies of Old…. From the entry downright
• "They were fished out, and they were great delicacies.1912, Jack London, chapter 1, in The Scarlet Plague (fiction). From the entry open season

Meaning of delicacy

1. noun The quality of being delicate.
2. noun Something appealing, usually a pleasing food, especially a choice dish of a certain culture suggesting rarity and refinement.
3. noun Fineness or elegance of construction or appearance.

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Questions about delicacy in a sentence

How do you use delicacy in a sentence?

Delicacy is used as a noun. For example: “Among other native delicacies, they give you fresh char.”

What is a short sentence with delicacy?

“a Chinese delicacy”

What does delicacy mean?

Delicacy means the quality of being delicate.