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exquisite | u |

As an adjective exquisite

is especially fine or pleasing; exceptional.

As a noun exquisite

is (rare) fop, dandy.

As a letter u is

the letter u with an acute accent.

exquisite

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Especially fine or pleasing; exceptional.
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  • *:Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
  • (lb) Carefully adjusted; precise; accurate; exact.
  • ; far-fetched; abstruse.
  • Of special beauty or rare excellence.
  • Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.
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  • Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.
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  • *(Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)
  • *:his books of Oriental languages, wherein he was exquisite
  • Synonyms

    * beautiful, delicate, discriminating

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) Fop, dandy.
  • * 1925 , , Random House, London:2007, p. 42.
  • So striking was his appearance that two exquisites , emerging from the Savoy Hotel and pausing on the pavement to wait for a vacant taxi, eyed him with pained disapproval as he approached, and then, starting, stared in amazement.
  • *:: 'Good Lord!' said the first exquisite .
  • u

    Translingual

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    Etymology 1

    Minuscule variation of U, a modern variation of classical Latin V, from seventh century Old Latin adoption of Old Italic letter .

    Letter

  • The twenty-first letter of the .
  • See also
    (Latn-script) * (other scripts) Cyrillic * (wikipedia "u")

    Etymology 2

    Symbol

    (head)
  • symbol for unified atomic mass unit
  • ).
  • (label) up quark
  • See also

    {{Letter , page=U , NATO=Uniform , Morse=··– , Character=U , Braille=? }} Image:Latin U.png, Capital and lowercase versions of U , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter U.png, Uppercase and lowercase U in Fraktur ----