Lumps of delight is an archaic British slang term for Turkish delight — the soft, starch-jelly sweet traditionally dusted in powdered sugar and flavoured with rosewater or lemon.
Lumps of delight is an archaic British slang term for Turkish delight — the soft, starch-jelly sweet traditionally dusted in powdered sugar and flavoured with rosewater or lemon. The term is pleasingly descriptive and characteristically British in its approach: slightly humorous and informal, reducing an exotic sweet to its physical essence. Encountered mainly in historical confectionery records and period slang dictionaries; entirely obsolete as a current term.
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The confectioner had trays of lumps of delight in the window, flavoured with rose and lemon and lavender.
(UK, archaic) Turkish delight.