Both Uses of
delicacy
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Great parcels of groceries and delicacies and dried fruits arrived from the city.†
Chpt 2 *
- …the wise but wicked man his libraries and instruments of research, the lover of artistic pleasures his marbles and pictures and other art treasures, he who delighted in the pleasures of the table his gorgeous feasts, his dishes prepared with such delicacy, his choice wines; the miser will remember his hoard of gold, the robber his ill-gotten wealth, the angry and revengeful and merciless murderers their deeds of blood and violence in which they revelled, the impure and adulterous the…†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(delicacy as in: eat the delicacy) something that is rare or expensive -- usually a prized food