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Definition of Delectables
1. delectable [n] - See also: delectable
Lexicographical Neighbors of Delectables
Literary usage of Delectables
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Light on the Dark River Or, Memorials of Mrs. Henrietta A.L. Hamlin by Meta Lander (1854)
"It may be added that the writer, with all his praise of cakes and pies, very
rarely tastes of any such " delectables." - " DEAR SISTER IN CHRIST : I do not ..."
2. A Catalogue of Books Printed in Foreign Languages Before the Year 1600 by Robert Hoe, Carolyn Shipman (1907)
"Blank leaf, NN 8, between Volumes I and II. MONTREUX, NICOLAS DE. Les Chastes et
delectables ... Les Chastes et delectables ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1868)
"... EL autres poissons delectables Dont on sert It mangier It tables, D'autres
engine assez avoie, Par lesquelz decevoir ..."
4. A Middle English Reader by Oliver Farrar Emerson (1905)
"Seint Marie (118, 2), Seinte Powel (200, 19). A few OF. adjectives with OF.
s plurals are found, as in places delectables ' delectable places,' goodes ..."
5. History of the English Language by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (1894)
"... French adjectives take the French plural in -s, as places delectables, but
this use is rare, although we still retain it in knights templars, ..."
6. The History of the English Language by Oliver Farrar Emerson (1894)
"Occasionally also in Chaucer, French adjectives take the French plural in -s, as
places delectables, but this use is rare, although we still retain it in ..."
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