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delicacy
 
NOUN:1. Something fine and delicious, especially a food: dainty, morsel, tidbit, treat. Informal : goody. See GOOD, INGESTION. 2. The condition of being infirm or physically weak: debility, decrepitude, delicateness, feebleness, flimsiness, fragileness, fragility, frailness, frailty, infirmity, insubstantiality, puniness, unsoundness, unsubstantiality, weakliness, weakness. See STRONG.
 
 
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