Meaning

Alternative spelling of delicatessen..

Example Sentences

Wittenberg, Louis, 2 kegs of anchovy, 2 kegs of pickles, a keg of sourkrout and delikatessen.

He then opened a fish and delikatessen store at 1685 N. Clark st.

The variety of delikatessen prepared from fish in Germany is well known.

It may be only half-an-hour after a solid mid-day lunch, but the question will be put nevertheless, and your obliging steward, if you cannot make up your mind what you will have, will very likely leave you for a moment only to hurry back with a tray bearing a large assortment of samples of the delikatessen beloved of the Fatherland.

The imprisoned cows’ fare consists largely of the excellent Norwegian hay and barley straw, together with a delikatessen slop, now and then, consisting of crabs, herring heads and other such dainties.

The scene of this enigmatic meal, at which Anthony had eaten ham and eggs, while Miss Holloway exhibited a fondness for smoked salmon sandwiches, and both of them had absorbed some blackish coffee, was Morgenstern’s in Coventry Street, in an underground apartment, lined with mirrors and pervaded by shadowy smells of delikatessen and mildew.

My brother-in-law who lives in Zürich, where he’s got a delikatessen shop would call you a fine young fellow-me-lad, he would!

Producers of boneless cured herring, maties, fillets, and delikatessen.

Word Forms

• delikatessens

When Should You Use Delikatessen?

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