The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word NICETIES
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result NICETIES
- Couple visiting a French city’s finer points
- Degrees of precision and what smart men wear?
- Insect that is dissected gives precise details
- Refinements of elegant neckwear
- Observing these creates good relationships
- Delicacies in hampers from the French Riviera?
- Shades – what you may find in high-class gents outfitters?
- Details of one European bitten by strange insect
- Fine points supplied by French city with connections
- Subtleties of French resort with connections
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What does NICETIES mean?
NICETIES noun- A small detail or distinction.
- Subtlety or precision of use.
- Delicacy of character or feeling usually from excessive refinement; fastidiousness
- That which is delicate to the taste.