Exquisites [noun]

For Loeffler is one of those exquisites whose refinement is unfortunately accompanied by sterility, perhaps even results from it.

He was quite a dandy, or a “macoroni” as the exquisites of that day were called both in London and in the Colonies.

An exquisite of exquisites, he had never felt the draughts of life or experienced its rude buffetings.

My uncle, who is an habitué of Paris, was at the Jockey Club one day, and heard two exquisites talking about them.

She would not have been considered ugly, but she might have appeared peculiar to many young exquisites.

On the other hand, there are exquisites behind the counters, ethereal-looking butchers, and poetic vendors of cooked ham and beef.

And, after all, he is not more given to scandal than the exquisites, and is a great deal honester and truer.

Some exquisites were said to have been able to detect the tea made by Luwuh from that of his disciples.

The two exquisites of the morning he saw, to his dismay, were already there.

The Chinese exquisites felt the skirts of the coats of the members of our embassy, and burst out into immoderate laughter.