Del″i‐cate, n. 1. A choice dainty; a delicacy.
With abstinence all delicates he sees. Dryden.
2. A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person.
All the vessels, then, which our delicates have, — those I mean that would seem to be more fine in their houses than their neighbors, — are only of the Corinth metal. Holland.