# delikatessen
## English
### Noun

delikatessen pl (plural only)
* Alternative spelling of delicatessen.
** 1898, Annual Report, The Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum, page 24:Wittenberg, Louis, 2 kegs of anchovy, 2 kegs of pickles, a keg of sourkrout and delikatessen.
** 1908, History of the Swedes of Illinois, The Engberg-Holmberg Publishing Company, page 218:He then opened a fish and delikatessen store at 1685 N. Clark st.
** 1913, Fishery Investigations, page 21:The variety of delikatessen prepared from fish in Germany is well known.
** 1913, R. A. Fletcher, Travelling Palaces: Luxury in Passenger Steamships, London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., […], page 296:It may be only half-an-hour after a solid mid-day lunch, but the question will be put nevertheless, and your obliging steward, if you cannot make up your mind what you will have, will very likely leave you for a moment only to hurry back with a tray bearing a large assortment of samples of the delikatessen beloved of the Fatherland.
** 1917, N[ehemias] Tjernagel, Walking Trips in Norway, Columbus, Ohio: Lutheran Book Concern, page 209:The imprisoned cows’ fare consists largely of the excellent Norwegian hay and barley straw, together with a delikatessen slop, now and then, consisting of crabs, herring heads and other such dainties.
** 1927, Paul Selver, One, Two, Three, George H. Doran Company, pages 171–172:The scene of this enigmatic meal, at which Anthony had eaten ham and eggs, while Miss Holloway exhibited a fondness for smoked salmon sandwiches, and both of them had absorbed some blackish coffee, was Morgenstern’s in Coventry Street, in an underground apartment, lined with mirrors and pervaded by shadowy smells of delikatessen and mildew.
** 1935, Ernst Glaeser, translated by Gwenda David and Eric Mosbacher, The Last Civilian, New York, N.Y.: Robert M. McBride & Company, page 244:My brother-in-law who lives in Zürich, where he’s got a delikatessen shop would call you a fine young fellow-me-lad, he would!
** 1961, Fisheries Year-Book and Directory, page 249:Producers of boneless cured herring, maties, fillets, and delikatessen.
** 1971, Inga Norberg Bredelius, Here Is Sweden: Not for Tourists Only, Askild & Kärnekull, page 110:Fish and delikatessen, flowers and the usual provisions.
** 2012 May, Travel Europe - Berlin, Script, →ISBN, page 51:Lebensmittel in Mitte […] is a casket full of delikatessen, where you can drink a coffee and taste or buy an excellent selection of wines.

### Noun

delikatessen (plural delikatessens)
* Alternative spelling of delicatessen.
** 1962, Esquire, page 136:There is a small, deluxe delikatessen on the street floor, offering fresh caviar, sturgeon, smoked salmon, home-made chaud-froid of chicken, fresh foie gras and old Gouda cheese, the first primeurs, especially the succulent Dutch asparagus, and other assorted delicacies.
** 1987, David F. Walker, editor, Manufacturing in Kitchener-Waterloo: A Long-Term Perspective, →ISBN, page 114:There is a Café Mozart and a Rathskeller, to say nothing of German-style delikatessens, bakeries, sausage-makers, etc.
** 2001, Jacqueline De Ville-Colby, The Expatriate Handbook: Seoul, Korea, Hollym, →ISBN, page 82:Delikatessens within the super deluxe hotels also retail in large selections of the above items.
** 2011, David Trotter, “The Modernist novel”, in Michael Levenson, editor, The Cambridge Companion to Modernism, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 90:Sitting in a delikatessen, surrounded by the girls from her school, she feels “securely adrift” (p. 88).

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

delikatessen m
* definite singular of delikatesse

## Swedish
### Noun

delikatessen
* definite singular of delikatess