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Delicatessen   Listen
noun
Delicatessen  n. pl.  
1.
Relishes for the table; dainties; delicacies. "A dealer in delicatessen".
2.
Ready-to-eat foods, such as cold cuts, cooked meats, and prepared salads.
3.
sing.; (pl. delicatessens) A store or section of a store where delicatessen (2) is sold. "Get a sandwich for lunch at the delicatessen counter."






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"Delicatessen" Quotes from Famous Books



... rising to his feet. Nora sprang into the waiting taxi with a little laugh of triumph and drew her skirts on one side to make room for her escort. They drove slowly off along the hot and crowded street, with its long-drawn-out tangle of polyglot shops, foreign-looking restaurants and delicatessen establishments. Every one who was not feverishly busy was seated either at the open windows of the second or third floor, or out on the pavement below. The city seemed to be exuding the soaked-in heat of the long ...
— Nobody's Man • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... Democracy, which was the only real opponent Tammany has had in my time, the Irving Hall Democracy, the New York State Democracy, the German-American Democracy, the Protection Democracy, the Independent County Democracy, the Greater New York Democracy, the Jimmy O'Brien Democracy, the Delicatessen Dealers' Democracy, the Silver Democracy, and the Italian Democracy. Not one of them is livin' today, although I hear somethin' about the ghost of the Greater New York Democracy bein' seen on Broadway once or twice ...
— Plunkitt of Tammany Hall • George Washington Plunkitt

... same?"—said the Countess. Upon general consent, she unpacked the provisions prepared for the two couples. In one of those oval dishes, the cover of which bears a china hare, to show that a hare pie lies inside, there were exquisite delicatessen, the white streams of lard crossing the brown meat of the game, mixed with other fine chopped meats. A handsome piece of Swiss-cheese, wrapped in a newspaper, had taken on its fat surface ...
— Mademoiselle Fifi • Guy de Maupassant

... fellers acted at Versailles, Mawruss, that this here Peace Conference is the breakup of a nice little friendly game, y'understand, and that not only should the winners take I. O. U's. from the losers, but that it is also up to the winners to serve a good delicatessen supper and pay for ...
— Potash and Perlmutter Settle Things • Montague Glass

... His destination: a small corner delicatessen four blocks south of Wilshire, on Western. Tonight he intended bypassing the larger stores like Safeway or Thriftimart, with their available supplies of exotic foods; a smaller grocery was far more likely to have what he needed. He was finding it ...
— Small World • William F. Nolan



Words linked to "Delicatessen" :   shop, charcuterie, deli, store, delicatessen food, convenience food



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