CHOICE, CHOICEST (excellent, fine)
ADJECTIVES
► DAINTY choice, excellent; valuable, fine, handsome; pleasant, delightful → c1340 obs. or Eng. dial.
► EXIMIOUS choice, select; extraordinary, excellent, rare, distinguished, eminent, famous, renowned → 1547 obs.
► WALE choice, select; excellent, noble, goodly → c1250 obs.
NOUNS
► DAINTY anything choice, estimable, fine, pleasing, or delightful; hence, occasionally, a luxury, a rarity → 1340 obs.
► EMPS-PIECE the choicest piece of food; a tidbit → 1671 Eng. dial. obs.
► GARLAND the choice, the principal ornament, the thing most prized → 1591 obs.
► GEM the choicest part of anything; something greatly prized, a ‘treasure’ → c1560
► HEART the choicest, best, or most important part → 1589
► OFFMAGANDY the choicest and best of delicacies → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PARTICULAR one’s special choice, as a glass of my ‘particular’ → 19C sl.