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delicate englanniksi
Easily damaged or requiring careful handling.
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(quote-song)|title=(w)|passage=You crush a delicate moth wing I see the stain on your fingertips
Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; said of manners, conduct, or feelings.
(quote-book) S(quote-gloss) Lewis|chapter=What News the Eagle Brought|title=The Last Battle|series=The Chronicles of Narnia|seriesvolume=7|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Publishers|Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.|pages=82–83|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/lastbattle0000unse_c8s5/page/83/mode/1up|lccn=56-9362|oclc=367130|passage=Jill had, as you might say quite fallen in love with the Unicorn. She thought—and she wasn’t far wrong—that he was the shiningest, delicatest, most graceful animal she had ever met: and he was so gentle and soft of speech that, if you hadn’t known, you would hardly have believed how fierce and terrible he could be in battle.
(RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet Q1-2)
Unwell, especially because of having drunk too much alcohol.
Addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring.
(RQ:Evelyn Diary) is a very delicate towne, and hath one of the fairest Churches, of the Gotiq design, I had seene.
Pleasing to the senses; refined; adapted to please an elegant or cultivated taste.
(quote-book)|chapter_tlr=anonymous|chapter=Of Difference of Meates|title=A Simple, and Religious Consultation of Vs(nb...)|location=London|publisher=(...) Day (printer)|I(quote-gloss) D(quote-gloss)|section=signature &91;Ll.vij.&93;, verso|sectionurl=https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_a-simple-and-religious-c_jdaye_1550/page/n527/mode/1up|oclc=960101974|passage=Among Chꝛiſten men there haue been now a greate whyle not a fewe, whych haue thought that it is a true faſte, if vpon certaine dayes they abſtayne only from the fleſhe of fowle, and foure footed beaſtes, thoughe in the meane ceaſon they dilitiouſly fede them ſelues with the fleſhe of fiſthes, and other meates much coſtlier, and delicater, than the commune vſe of fleſhe is.
(quote-book) Culpeper|chapter=The Division of Mans Body|title=A Sure Guide or, The Best and Nearest Way to Physick and Chirurgery:(nb...)|series=The Physitian’s Library|location=London|publisher=(...) Peter Cole(nb...)|page=31|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/2751056R.nlm.nih.gov/page/n40/mode/1up|oclc=14324814|passage=The Fleſh of man, becauſe its Nouriſhed by purer Blood, is delicater than the fleſh of other Creatures, and prefered before it by Canibals, or Man-Eaters.
(RQ:Trollope Framley Parsonage)
Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful.
(RQ:Shakespeare Othello Q1). She is a moſt exquiſite Lady. () Indeede ſhe is a moſt freſh and delicate creature.
Light, or softly tinted; said of a colour.
Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious.
Highly discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite.
Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes.
A delicate item of clothing, especially underwear or lingerie.
A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person.
(RQ:Plutarch Holland Morals)
A moth, (taxlink).
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