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"text": "As for thoſe People of the Eaſt, (Goa, Calecute, Malaca,) they vvere a Fine, and Dainty People; Frugall, and yet Elegant, though not Militar.",
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"ref": "1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:",
"text": "Those dainty limbs which nature lent / For gentle usage and soft delicacy.",
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"text": "However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.",
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"ref": "1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “\"The Aberdonian\" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 9:",
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"ref": "c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene ii:",
"text": "UUho when he ſhal embrace you in his arms\nUUil tell how many thouſand men he ſlew.\nAnd when you looke for amorous diſcourſe,\nWill rattle foorth his facts of war and blood:\nToo harſh a ſubiect for your daintie eares.",
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"text": "And let us not be dainty of leave taking, / But shift away.",
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"ref": "1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XVI, Chapter vii leaf 337r:",
"text": "And she receyued hym with grete Ioye and made hym to sytte doune by her and soo was he sette to soupe with flesshe and many deyntees\nAnd she received him with great joy, and made him to sit down by her, and so was he set to sup with flesh and many dainties.",
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "delikates",
"sense": "a delicacy",
"word": "деликатес"
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "lakomstvo",
"sense": "a delicacy",
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"sense": "a delicacy",
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"word": "lahůdka"
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "a delicacy",
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"sense": "a delicacy",
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"sense": "a delicacy",
"word": "чүйгүн"
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"sense": "a delicacy",
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"sense": "a delicacy",
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"sense": "a delicacy",
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"sense": "a delicacy",
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"sense": "a delicacy",
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"word": "delicatețe"
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "a delicacy",
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"roman": "delikatɛ́s",
"sense": "a delicacy",
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"word": "ла́комство"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a delicacy",
"word": "läckerbit"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a delicacy",
"word": "läckerhet"
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