All 3 Uses of
delicacy
in
The Hunger Games
- All year, the Capitol will show the winning district gifts of grain and oil and even delicacies like sugar while the rest of us battle starvation.
p. 19..4 *delicacies = things that are rare or expensive
- Not to model flashy costumes and eat delicacies.
p. 80..3delicacies = rare and expensive types of foods
- I have dinner that night in my room, ordering an outrageous number of delicacies, eating myself sick, and then taking out my anger at Haymitch, at the Hunger Games, at every living being in the Capitol by smashing dishes around my room.
p. 118..7
Definition:
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(delicacy as in: eat the delicacy) something that is rare or expensive -- usually a prized food