Both Uses of
delectable
in
The House of Mirth
- The fact that the money freed her temporarily from all minor obligations obscured her sense of the greater one it represented, and having never before known what it was to command so large a sum, she lingered delectably over the amusement of spending it.†
Chpt 1.10 *
- It seemed intolerable to live on for another year under the weight of her debt; and in her extremity she decided to turn to Miss Stepney, who still lingered in town, immersed in the delectable duty of "going over" her benefactress's effects.†
Chpt 2.4
Definition:
extremely pleasing -- especially to the sense of taste or to the eye