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delicacy (countable and uncountable, plural delicacies)

The quality of being delicate.
- 1878, Samuel Butler, Life and Habit, London: Trübner & Co., page 1:
  […] for unless a matter be true enough to stand a good deal of misrepresentation, its truth is not of a very robust order, and the blame will rather lie with its own delicacy than with the carelessness of the crusher.
Something appealing, usually a pleasing food, especially a choice dish of a certain culture suggesting rarity and refinement.
a Chinese delicacy
Fineness or elegance of construction or appearance.
Frailty of health or fitness.
Refinement in taste or discrimination.
Tact and propriety; the need for such tact.

quality of being delicate

something appealing, especially a pleasing food

Bulgarian: лакомство (bg) n (lakomstvo), деликатес (bg) m (delikates)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 美味 (zh) (měiwèi), 珍味 (zh) (zhēnwèi), 美食 (zh) (měishí), 珍饈／珍馐 (zh) (zhēnxiū), 佳餚／佳肴 (zh) (jiāyáo), 嘉殽／嘉淆 (jiāyáo), 佳肴 (zh) (jiāyáo)
Czech: lahůdka (cs) f, delikatesa f
Danish: delikatesse c, lækkerbisken c
Dutch: lekkernij (nl) f
Finnish: herkku (fi)
French: gourmandise (fr) f
German: Delikatesse (de) f, Leckerbissen (de) m, Köstlichkeit f
Hebrew: מַעֲדָן‎ (he) m (ma'adan), מַטְעָם‎ m (mat'ám)
Italian: prelibatezza (it) f, leccornia (it) f, squisitezza (it) f
Japanese: 珍味 (ja) (ちんみ, chinmi), 美味 (ja) (びみ, bimi), デリカシー (derikashī)
Kazakh: жеңсiк тағам (jeñsik tağam), жеңсiк ас (jeñsik as)
Kyrgyz: чүйгүн (ky) (çüygün)
Latin: scītāmentum n, mattea f
Latvian: delikatese f
Luxembourgish: Delikatess f
Maori: horotai
Norwegian:
Bokmål: delikatesse m

Nynorsk: delikatesse f
Plautdietsch: Lakjabeskje n
Polish: delikates (pl) m, delicje f pl, przysmak (pl) m
Portuguese: iguaria (pt), guloseima (pt)
Russian: деликате́с (ru) m (delikatɛ́s), ла́комство (ru) n (lákomstvo)
Serbo-Croatian: delikatèsa (sh) f, pòslastica (sh) f
Spanish: exquisitez f, golosina (es) f, manjar (es) m
Swedish: delikatess (sv) c
Vietnamese: mỹ vị (vi) (美味)

elegance of construction or appearance

refinement in taste