delicated

comparative more delicated · superlative most delicated

1. rareDelicate.

   These delicated muslins rather seem / Than be, you think?

   1851, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Casa Guidi Windows. A Poem, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, part II, stanza XX, page 125

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   O mine ſeete, deerſt, kindeſt, mine louing, O mine towſand, ten towſand, delicated, petty ſeet art

   1605, Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], The Dutch Courtezan. […], London: […] T[homas] P[urfoot] for Iohn Hodgets, […], →OCLC, Act II

   Facility generally diſguſts delicated nice Minds, but it produces a contrary effect, when a Lover regards it as a miracle of Love.

   1673, [Marie-Catherine de Villedieu], anonymous translator, “The Loves of Great Men. Cato of Vtica.”, in The Amours of Solon. Socrates. Julius Cæsar. Cato of Vtica. D’ Andelot. Bussy D’ Amboyse. […], London: […] H. Herringman, and John Starkey, […], page 120

   The way the single, circular petal was folded in the bud, like a rolled umbrella, shows in lines pressed finely into its delicated flesh, as thin as fine silk, but so much more perishable.

   1990 August 15, James Schuyler, edited by Nathan Kernan, The Diary of James Schuyler, Santa Rosa, Calif.: Black Sparrow Press, published 1997, →ISBN, page 274