adjective
exquisite
CEFR B2
of extreme beauty, delicacy, or fine workmanship
In a sentence
Six example sentences with exquisite, each labelled with its topic.
The pastry chef piped an exquisite lattice of spun sugar over the tart, each strand thinner than a hair.
Cooking
The jeweler's exquisite enamel brooch shows a hummingbird so finely worked that its feathers are visible under a loupe.
Art
Visitors linger under the mosque's exquisite tilework, where thousands of tiny glazed pieces form flawless interlocking stars.
Architecture
Diatom shells show exquisite geometry under the microscope, each species patterned with holes finer than a micron.
Science
Her phrasing in the slow movement was exquisite, each note shaded so the melody seemed to breathe.
Music
The translator's exquisite rendering of the haiku keeps all seventeen syllables and loses none of the frost.
Literature
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