Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A choice or dainty food; a delicacy.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An article of food; a viand; more particularly, rich, luxurious, or dainty food; a delicacy; a dainty: a later form of acate: most commonly used in the plural.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Food.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun in the plural A delicacy or item of food.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Short for acate, from Middle English acat, a purchase, from Norman French, from acater, to buy; see cater.]

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Aphetized from acate.

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  • A delicacy, a dainty.

    October 26, 2008