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cate

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cate  (kt)
n. Archaic
A choice or dainty food; a delicacy.

[Short for acate, from Middle English acat, a purchase, from Norman French, from acater, to buy; see cater.]


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He could draw well enough and he had many odd deli- cate thoughts hidden away in his brain that might have expressed themselves through the brush of a painter, but he was always a child and that was a handicap to his worldly development.
He stood there for a moment in the moonlight with his deli- cate hooked nose set a little askew, and his mica eyes glittering without a wink, then, with a curt Good night, he strode off.
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