Both Uses of
delicacy
in
The Hound of the Baskervilles
- I certainly wrote to him once or twice to acknowledge his delicacy and his generosity.†
Chpt 11 *
- Always there was this feeling of an unseen force, a fine net drawn round us with infinite skill and delicacy, holding us so lightly that it was only at some supreme moment that one realized that one was indeed entangled in its meshes.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
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(delicacy as in: eat the delicacy) something that is rare or expensive -- usually a prized food