• (British) IPA: /ɪkˈskwɪzɪt/, /ˈɛkskwɪzɪt/

exquisite

1. Especially fine or pleasing; exceptional.

   They sell good coffee and pastries, but their chocolate is exquisite.

   Sourav Ganguly scored an exquisite century in his debut Test match.

   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:

     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.

2. (obsolete) Carefully adjusted; precise; accurate; exact.
3. Recherché; far-fetched; abstruse.
4. Of special beauty or rare excellence.
5. Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.

   exquisite pain or pleasure

6. Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.

   exquisite judgment, taste, or discernment

   • his books of Oriental languages, wherein he was exquisite

• beautiful, delicate, discriminating, perfect

• French: exquis
• German: exquisit, köstlich, auserlesen
• Italian: squisito, delizioso
• Portuguese: esmerado, primoroso
• Russian: изы́сканный
• Spanish: exquisito, bonísimo

• Portuguese: distinto
• Russian: редкостный

• Russian: чрезвычайный

exquisite (plural exquisites)

1. (rare) Fop, dandy. [from early 20th c.]
   • 1925, P. G. Wodehouse, Sam the Sudden, Random House, London:2007, p. 42.

     So striking was his appearance that two exquisites, emerging from the Savoy Hotel and pausing on the pavement to wait for a vacant taxi, eyed him with pained disapproval as he approached, and then, starting, stared in amazement.

     'Good Lord!' said the first exquisite.