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  • noun Plural form of exquisite.

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Examples

  • "exquisites," the butterflies and flower-haunting flies and "dandy" beetles; and, opposed to all these, the suggestive antithesis of the promiscuous marauders, thieves, and brigands everywhere interspersed?

    My Studio Neighbors William Hamilton Gibson 1873

  • The chattering classes never understand the need for escape, how would they, passing elegantly amongst the urban exquisites of the new elite court, for them life is an escape already.

    Wake Up! Newmania 2007

  • Similarly he claims to be against ID cards but he is all for handing our democratic rights to a Euro aristocracy of pampered exquisites Clog, who, coincidentally, are going to impose ID cards on us whatever we say.

    Archive 2007-10-21 Newmania 2007

  • The chattering classes never understand the need for escape, how would they, passing elegantly amongst the urban exquisites of the new elite court, for them life is an escape already.

    Archive 2007-10-21 Newmania 2007

  • Similarly he claims to be against ID cards but he is all for handing our democratic rights to a Euro aristocracy of pampered exquisites Clog, who, coincidentally, are going to impose ID cards on us whatever we say.

    Lib Dum and Lib Dum-er Newmania 2007

  • There are no caricatures, now, of effeminate exquisites so arrayed, swooning in opera boxes with excess of delight and being revived by other dainty creatures poking long – necked scent – bottles at their noses.

    Bleak House 2007

  • The gentleman in blue, and the man in orange, who were the chief exquisites of the party, ordered ‘cold shrub and water,’ but with the others, gin – and – water, sweet, appeared to be the favourite beverage.

    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

  • What a coquette she was! to the day of her death she took as much pains with her appearance as though the beautiful portrait had been painted only yesterday, and she were waiting to receive the throng of exquisites from the Court!

    Letters of Two Brides 2007

  • Finot was delighted to give his right-hand man an order for the Opera, so Lucien wasted many an evening there, and thenceforward he was among the exquisites of the day.

    A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

  • I will introduce you to a house where all Paris goes, all OUR Paris, that is — the Paris of exquisites, millionaires, celebrities, all the folk who talk gold like

    The Magic Skin 2007

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