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Definition of Exquisite
Exquisite

Carefully selected or sought out; hence, of distinguishing and surpassing quality; exceedingly nice; delightfully excellent; giving rare satisfaction; as, exquisite workmanship.

Exceeding; extreme; keen; -- used in a bad or a good sense; as, exquisite pain or pleasure.

Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; nice; fastidious; as, exquisite judgment, taste, or discernment.

One who manifests an exquisite attention to external appearance; one who is overnice in dress or ornament; a fop; a dandy.

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Exquisite Quotations

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Edgar Allan Poe

Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.
Voltaire

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.
Guillermo C. Infante

Exquisite Translations

exquisite in German is auserlesene
exquisite in Latin is exquisitus
exquisite in Spanish is exquisito


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