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exquisite
UK /ɪkˈskwɪzɪt/ US /ɪkˈskwɪzɪt/
adj 5noun 1
Definitions
adj
1
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.
2
Carefully adjusted; precise; accurate; exact.
3
Recherché; far-fetched; abstruse.
4
Of special beauty or rare excellence.
5
Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.
exquisite pain or pleasure
noun
1
Fop, dandy.
It is impossible to meet with a more finished coxcomb than a Broadway exquisite, or a “Broadway swell,” which is the designation attached to him on the spot.
When this bejewelled exquisite lounged through the streets playing on his flute, puffing at a cigar, and smelling at a nosegay, the people whom he met threw themselves on the earth before him and prayed to him with sighs and tears.
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