Meaning & use
Delicacies
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Foods considered rare, luxurious, or especially pleasing to eat.
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The market stalls sold local delicacies like smoked eel and truffle honey.
Guests were treated to an array of delicacies at the reception.
A note on using this word
Can also mean fineness or sensitivity in a non-food sense, as in "handled the topic with delicacy."
Words with a similar meaning
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Another way to use it
2. noun
Instances of fineness, sensitivity, or fragility.
The negotiations required great delicacies of judgment.
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