lumps of delight

English

Noun

lumps of delight pl (plural only)

1. (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?”