lumps of delight
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[edit]Noun
[edit]lumps of delight pl (plural only)
- (UK, archaic) Turkish delight
- 1861, Herbert Byng Hall, The Oyster, page 16:
- Twelve "lumps of delight," as the Mussulman — not mussel man — calls his sweetmeats!
- 1870 April–September, Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1870, →OCLC:
- Rosa replies: “I want to go to the Lumps-of-Delight shop.”
“To the—?”
“A Turkish sweetmeat, sir. My gracious me, don’t you understand anything? Call yourself an Engineer, and not know that?”