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delicious

/dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/ adjective A1
  1. Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty.
  2. Pleasing to a person's taste; pleasing to the eyes or mind. (colloquial, figuratively) · The irony is delicious!
  3. Having tremendous sex appeal. (slang)
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She had discovered that a lane opened out below the apple orchard and ran up through a belt of woodland; and she had explored it to its furthest end in all its delicious vagaries of brook and bridge, fir coppice and wild cherry arch, corners thick with fern, and branching byways of maple and mountain ash.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 62 · C1
I had one chocolate caramel once two years ago and it was simply delicious.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 33 · C1
The ice cream was delicious, Marilla, and it was so lovely and dissipated to be sitting there eating it at eleven o’clock at night.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 239 · C1
Isn’t the breath of the mint delicious?
Anne of Green Gables, p. 305 · C1

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