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/dˌɛlɪkətˈɛsən/ Listen

noun

Delicatessen n. pl.

Relishes for the table; dainties; delicacies. "A dealer in delicatessen".

Ready-to-eat foods, such as cold cuts, cooked meats, and prepared salads.

sing.; (pl. delicatessens) A store or section of a store where delicatessen (2) is sold. "Get a sandwich for lunch at the delicatessen counter."

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Etymology of 'Delicatessen'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Delicatessen" Quotes from Famous Books

... an anachronism—so is all the flummery of silk and laces, doilies and doo-dads that so often bewilder us. They are unfair to the food—as hard to live up to as anybody's blue china. I smile even yet, remembering my husband's chuckles, after we had come home from eating delicatessen chicken off ten-dollar plates, by help of antique silver. Somehow the viands and the ...

— Dishes & Beverages of the Old South • Martha McCulloch Williams

... to the food, ma'am." And Matilda explained that during the evening, in preparation for her going, she had been smuggling into the house from Sixth Avenue delicatessen stores boxes of crackers, cold meats, all varieties of canned goods—"enough to last you for a month, ma'am, and by that time I'll ...

— No. 13 Washington Square • Leroy Scott

... Tessie, "unless you count Mrs. Fizzenmeyer, the delicatessen lady; or Madame Tebeau, the little hairdresser; or the Schmitt girls, from the corner bakery. They pretend to take Auntie almost as serious as she takes herself. Lately, though, even that bunch has stopped. You can't blame 'em. It may be funny for once or twice. After that—well, ...

— Wilt Thou Torchy • Sewell Ford

... remarked. "I couldn't do that girl dirt by up and going dead after all her trouble. Ain't she just fed me and flowered me and coddled me general? Gawd A'mighty! I feel like a delicatessen shop 'n a flower garden all mixed up ...

— Blue Goose • Frank Lewis Nason

... jumping up from her chair. "Hal, in a few minutes more your father will be home, and not a blessed move has been made toward supper. There's no time to get anything ready now. Hal, I shall have to send you around the corner to the delicatessen shop, although ...

— Uncle Sam's Boys as Lieutenants - or, Serving Old Glory as Line Officers • H. Irving Hancock

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