Both Uses of
delicacy
in
Babbitt
- Usually Eunice and he were merely neighborhood chums, and quarreled with a wholesome and violent lack of delicacy; but now and then, after the color and scent of a dance, they were silent together and a little furtive, and Babbitt was worried.†
Chpt 18
- They coughed politely, and crossed their legs with quietness, and in expensive linen handkerchiefs they blew their noses with a delicacy altogether optimistic and refined.†
Chpt 30 *
Definition:
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(delicacy as in: eat the delicacy) something that is rare or expensive -- usually a prized food