Adjective

(en adjective)

Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion.

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […]  The bed was the most extravagant piece.  Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.}}

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