Citations:delicatessen


 * 1864, “The Duchies: Danish Rights, Customs, and Legends”, in Dublin University Magazine, v 63, p 359:
 * When great parties were given, the provision existed that the dishes should be cold; “warm food and delicatessen” were forbidden.
 * 1869, “A Spring in Rome and Southern Italy”, in New Monthly Magazine, London: Chapman and Hall, v 144, p 165:
 * Bony carcases of sheep and limp kids hang around the butcher's stalls; beneath them are dead porcupines, hedgehogs, and other vermin; the “delicatessen” stalls exhibit saucers of clotted blood, attenuated fowls, with the little soft eggs that have been drawn from them lying in heaps by their side; birds of all kinds, sparrows and goldfinches, owls and magpies, hawks and crows hang around, and at not a few stalls we saw meat that looked very much like horseflesh.