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delicate

/ˈdɛl.ɪ.kɪt/ nom C2
  1. A delicate item of clothing, especially underwear or lingerie. · Don't put that in with your jeans: it's a delicate!
  2. A moth of the species Mythimna vitellina.

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Such inquiries serve no useful purpose, sir, and place us in a delicate and difficult position.'
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 7 · B2
More--one evening she went up to the east gable with her arms full of a delicate pale green material.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 287 · C1
Anne had a brighter face, and bigger, starrier eyes, and more delicate features than the other; even shy, unobservant Matthew had learned to take note of these things; but the difference that disturbed him did not consist in any of these respects.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 187 · C1
IT was October again when Anne was ready to go back to school--a glorious October, all red and gold, with mellow mornings when the valleys were filled with delicate mists as if the spirit of autumn had poured them in for the sun to drain--amethyst, pearl, silver, rose, and smoke-blue.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 181 · C1

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