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Every year around Christmas, the local grocery store rolls out the petits fours -- delicious (and expensive) bite-sized cakes that are difficult to resist.

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  1. adjective Highly pleasing or agreeable to the senses, especially of taste or smell.
  2. adjective Very pleasant; delightful: a delicious revenge.
  3. Syntax Note
    Synonyms: delicious, ambrosial, delectable, luscious, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy
    These adjectives mean very pleasing to the sense of taste: a delicious pâté; ambrosial fruit salad; delectable raspberries; luscious chocolate bonbons; a scrumptious peach; a toothsome apple; yummy fudge.

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  • It is a piece which can be described only by one word--delicious. —  The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players
  • A mountain of ruddy strawberries formed a centrepiece,--delicious and novel cakes made side dishes, jellies quivered and reflected on their sides the foaming waterfall. —  In the Mist of the Mountains
  • It is delicious, and supposed to have medicinal value. —  The Community Cook Book
  • Still more delicious is the interpellation into Hamlet's first soliloquy of the following lines, referring to the "unweeded garden Ces jours qu'on nous montre superbes Sont un vilain jardin, rempli de folles herbes Qui donnent de l'ivraie et certes rien de plus Si ce n'est les engins du cholיra morbus Angels and ministers of grace, defend us! —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
  • The collector will note some small departures from the original book, but the little cook will no doubt find what is here to be fun to cook, delicious, and warmly nostalgic For best results, we recommend the following recipe changes when preparing these old-fashioned recipes. —  A Little Book for A Little Cook
 

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peanut butter · falafel · lasagna · dark chocolate · deep fried Twinkies · about · addon · admire · adobeair · haggis · sweetbreads

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  1. Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Late Latin dēliciōsus, pleasing, from Latin dēlicia, pleasure : dē-, intensive pref.; see de- + lacere, to entice.

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  1. from Middle English delicious, from Old French delicieus, French délicieux = Provencal delicios = Spanish Portuguese delicioso = Italian delizioso, from Latin deliciosus, delicious, delightful, from deliciœ, delight: see delicate.
 

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