delikatessen

1. alternativepluralplural onlyAlternative spelling of delicatessen.

   He then opened a fish and delikatessen store at 1685 N. Clark st.

   1908, History of the Swedes of Illinois, The Engberg-Holmberg Publishing Company, page 218

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   Wittenberg, Louis, 2 kegs of anchovy, 2 kegs of pickles, a keg of sourkrout and delikatessen.

   1898, Annual Report, The Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum, page 24

   The variety of delikatessen prepared from fish in Germany is well known.

   1913, Fishery Investigations, page 21

   It may be only half-an-hour after a solid mid-day lunch, but the question will be put nevertheless, and your obliging steward, if you cannot make up your mind what you will have, will very likely leave you for a moment only to hurry back with a tray bearing a large assortment of samples of the delikatessen beloved of the Fatherland.

   1913, R. A. Fletcher, Travelling Palaces: Luxury in Passenger Steamships, London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., […], page 296

   The imprisoned cows’ fare consists largely of the excellent Norwegian hay and barley straw, together with a delikatessen slop, now and then, consisting of crabs, herring heads and other such dainties.

   1917, N[ehemias] Tjernagel, Walking Trips in Norway, Columbus, Ohio: Lutheran Book Concern, page 209

   The scene of this enigmatic meal, at which Anthony had eaten ham and eggs, while Miss Holloway exhibited a fondness for smoked salmon sandwiches, and both of them had absorbed some blackish coffee, was Morgenstern’s in Coventry Street, in an underground apartment, lined with mirrors and pervaded by shadowy smells of delikatessen and mildew.

   1927, Paul Selver, One, Two, Three, George H. Doran Company, pages 171–172

plural delikatessens

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of delicatessen.

   Delikatessens within the super deluxe hotels also retail in large selections of the above items.

   2001, Jacqueline De Ville-Colby, The Expatriate Handbook: Seoul, Korea, Hollym, →ISBN, page 82

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   There is a small, deluxe delikatessen on the street floor, offering fresh caviar, sturgeon, smoked salmon, home-made chaud-froid of chicken, fresh foie gras and old Gouda cheese, the first primeurs, especially the succulent Dutch asparagus, and other assorted delicacies.

   1962, Esquire, page 136

   There is a Café Mozart and a Rathskeller, to say nothing of German-style delikatessens, bakeries, sausage-makers, etc.

   1987, David F. Walker, editor, Manufacturing in Kitchener-Waterloo: A Long-Term Perspective, →ISBN, page 114

   Sitting in a delikatessen, surrounded by the girls from her school, she feels “securely adrift” (p. 88).

   2011, David Trotter, “The Modernist novel”, in Michael Levenson, editor, The Cambridge Companion to Modernism, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 90