LekhoriLekhoriEasily damaged or requiring careful handling.
Those clothes are made from delicate lace.
Characterized by a fine structure or thin lines.
Her face was delicate.
Intended for use with fragile items.
Set the washing machine to the delicate cycle.
A delicate item of clothing, especially underwear or lingerie.
Don't put that in with your jeans: it's a delicate!
A choice dainty; a delicacy.
With Abstinence all Delicates he Sees, / And can regale himself with Toast and Cheese.
From Middle English delicat, from Latin dēlicātus (“giving pleasure, delightful, soft, luxurious, delicate, (in Medieval Latin also) fine, slender”), from dēlicia + -ātus (see -ate (adjective-forming ...
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A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person.
A council of war was called, and the delicates met in the great cabin ; the platform was rigged up on the forecastle, the yard-rope rove, and the signal made for all boats to attend execution