All 6 Uses of
delicacy
in
War and Peace
- As a clever maitre d'hotel serves up as a specially choice delicacy a piece of meat that no one who had seen it in the kitchen would have cared to eat, so Anna Pavlovna served up to her guests, first the vicomte and then the abbe, as peculiarly choice morsels.†
Chpt 1
- "What delicacy!" thought the princess.†
Chpt 3 *
- It would have been impossible to treat her with more delicacy, greater care, and at the same time more seriously than did Count Bezukhov.†
Chpt 9
- Natasha unconsciously felt this delicacy and so found great pleasure in his society.†
Chpt 9
- Princess Mary understood this and appreciated his delicacy.†
Chpt 10
- She took no pains with her manners or with delicacy of speech, or with her toilet, or to show herself to her husband in her most becoming attitudes, or to avoid inconveniencing him by being too exacting.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(delicacy as in: eat the delicacy) something that is rare or expensive -- usually a prized food