exquisite
/ɪkˈskwɪzɪt/ adjective B2- Especially or extraordinarily fine or pleasing; exceptional. · They sell good coffee and pastries, but their chocolate is exquisite.· Sourav Ganguly scored an exquisite century in his debut Test match.
- Recherché; far-fetched; abstruse.
- Of special beauty or rare excellence.
- Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense. · exquisite pain or pleasure
- Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious. · exquisite judgment, taste, or discernment
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“Indeed,” said Albert, “it is exquisite; it is impossible to understand the music of his country better than Prince Cavalcanti does.
“That is to say, the half that was left—you understand; it was exquisite, sir.
This fish, which seems so exquisite to you, is very likely no better than perch or salmon; but it seemed impossible to procure it, and here it is.”
Then they began to pass around the dusky, piquant, Arlesian sausages, and lobsters in their dazzling red cuirasses, prawns of large size and brilliant color, the echinus with its prickly outside and dainty morsel within, the clovis, esteemed by the epicures of the South as more than rivalling the exquisite flavor of the oyster, North.
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