Both Uses of
delectable
in
The Power and the Glory by Cooke
- Cottonville was a town distraught, and the Hardwick servants had seized the occasion to run out for a bit of delectable gossip in which the least of the horrors included Gray Stoddard's murdered and mutilated body washed down in some mountain stream to the sight of his friends.†
Chpt 21
- The patent might have a company to manage its affairs, but the mine on Big Unaka was sacred to these two, in whom the immortal urchin sufficiently survived to make mine-hunting and exploiting delectable employment.†
Chpt 25 *
Definition:
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(delectable) extremely pleasing -- especially to the sense of taste or to the eye