delice

See also: délice and dělíce

English

Etymology

From Old French delice, from Latin dēlicium.

Noun

delice (plural delices)

1. (obsolete) Delight, pleasure, especially sensual pleasure.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     he has pourd out his idle mind / In daintie delices, and lauish ioyes […]

Anagrams

• ceiled, cieled, decile