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lumps of delight en · NOUN
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(UK, archaic, plural, plural-only) Turkish delight
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?”
1870 April–September, Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1870, →OCLC:Twelve "lumps of delight," as the Mussulman — not mussel man — calls his sweetmeats!
1861, Herbert Byng Hall, The Oyster, page 16: