delicacy

== Anglais == === Étymologie === Étymologie manquante ou incomplète. Si vous la connaissez, vous pouvez l’ajouter en cliquant ici. === Nom commun === delicacy Délice. friandise. The bulbous roots, which look like brown radishes, are rich in sugar and starch and have a distinctly sweet, tangy flavor that has made them a delicacy in the high Andean plateau region of Peru and Bolivia. Maca roots are usually roasted or boiled in milk or water to form a sort of gruel [...] — (Noel Vietmeyer, article « Forgotten Roots of the Incas », page 100, dans Chilies to Chocolate: Food the Americas Gave the World (publié par Nelson Foster et Linda S. Cordell). University of Arizona Press; 1992.) (Cuisine) Spécialité culinaire. Such expectations reflected their clear choice between two kinds of Chinese food that were made available to them: the simple and inexpensive dishes like chop suey, and China’s haute cuisine featuring delicacies like shark’s fins. — (Yong Chen, Chop Suey, USA: The Story of Chinese Food in America, page 126. Columbia University Press, 2014.) La traduction en français de l’exemple manque. (Ajouter) The captain of the Titanic was from Stoke-on-Trent, a city of six towns where the local delicacy is the oatcake. — (Article « We Are Stoke-on-Trent: What links the Titanic and oatcakes? ». BBC News, 28 septembre 2019.) La traduction en français de l’exemple manque. (Ajouter) Délicatesse. But, I say we are all liable to mistakes and I should feel sensible of your delicacy, and grateful for it, if you would spare me these references to Harthouse. — (Charles Dickens, Hard Times – For These Times (Les Temps difficiles), Book the Third, Chapter III: Very Decided . Bradbury & Ecans, 1854.) La traduction en français de l’exemple manque. (Ajouter) ==== Quasi-synonymes ==== finesse (finesse en français) ==== Dérivés ==== delicatessen (traiteur) ==== Apparentés étymologiques ==== delicate (délicat) === Prononciation === États-Unis : écouter « delicacy [Prononciation ?] » === Voir aussi === delicacy sur l’encyclopédie Wikipédia (en anglais)