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Definition of Exquisites
1. exquisite [n] - See also: exquisite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exquisites
Literary usage of Exquisites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"exquisites of their period. Obs. 1805 Some tippee blades stopped lately at the
house of a jolly publican [near Wilmington].—Id., Nov. 12, p. 363. ..."
2. Old highways in China by Isabelle Williamson (1884)
"... Chinese ' exquisites ' and Chinese roughs—Hunt for an inn—A guest-room tastefully
ornamented—' The seven ages of man '— Chinese honesty. ..."
3. Animal Memoirs by Samuel Lockwood (1888)
"Avian exquisites. E have already seen that the bower-birds, long supposed to
affiliate with the starlings, are now set down as a division of the family of ..."
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