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delicacy
late 14c., "quaity of being addicted to sensuous pleasure," from
delicate
. Meaning "fineness, softness, tender loveliness" is from 1580s; that of "weakness of constitution" is from 1630s. Meaning "a dainty viand" is from mid-15c.
