They sell good coffee and pastries, but their chocolate is exquisite.

Sourav Ganguly scored an exquisite century in his debut Test match.

exquisite judgment, taste, or discernment

It is impossible to meet with a more finished coxcomb than a Broadway exquisite, or a “Broadway swell,” which is the designation attached to him on the spot.

When this bejewelled exquisite lounged through the streets playing on his flute, puffing at a cigar, and smelling at a nosegay, the people whom he met threw themselves on the earth before him and prayed to him with sighs and tears.

1925, P. G. Wodehouse, Sam the Sudden, Random House, London:2007, p. 42.
So striking was his appearance that two exquisites, emerging from the Savoy Hotel and pausing on the pavement to wait for a vacant taxi, eyed him with pained disapproval as he approached, and then, starting, stared in amazement.
'Good Lord!' said the first exquisite.

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