The phrase "a set of delicate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a collection or group of items that are fragile or finely made.
Example: "She displayed a set of delicate porcelain figurines on the shelf."
Alternatives: "a collection of fragile" or "a group of fine".
A set of delicate, porcelainlike Japanese dishes turns out to be a line of disposable paper tableware made of repurposed materials.
They arrived with almost nothing: a few bags of clothes, a couple of household items — like a set of delicate blue teacups — and faded photographs.
An 18th-century Japanese anatomist gentrified his subject almost beyond recognition, sketching a set of delicate pink petals drooping from a trachea and calling them lungs, while a tangle of thick noodles in a head-shaped bowl passed for a brain.
"They couldn't wait to tell you," she said, "either because they were so depressed or so elated". Ms. Cullerton bought a set of delicate blue and gold Wedgwood plates with forget-me-nots on them (eight for $60) from a 40-something opera singer on the Upper West Side.
He travels all over the world telling people about the magnetospheres of various planets, and when he comes back he brings me presents — a small bronze box from Africa with an alligator embossed on the top, a big piece of amber from Poland with the wings of flies preserved inside it, and, once, a set of delicate, horrifying bracelets made from the hide of an elephant.
Mr. Nott opened the Sunday program with Webern's Five Pieces for Orchestra (1913), a set of idea-packed vignettes etched in delicate strokes and rapidly changing colors.
Beetles have a set of hard wings that protect the delicate wings used for flight.
Even the Weeknd – the mysterious avant-R&B outfit led by the Canadian crooner Abel Tesfaye – stayed relatively straightforward in a set of sleekly mannered love songs that layered delicate falsetto vocals over grinding, digitally enhanced beats: Sade fronting Nine Inch Nails, essentially.
A delicate tumbler comes in a set of six; $42 at Mxyplyzyk, 125 Greenwich Avenue (13th Street).
"At Suma Beach" is less a setting of a Noh play than a delicate reduction of one, condensed like a clear stock into intense -- but not dense -- music.
On four occasions, he led Dawn Upshaw and the New York Philharmonic in a performance of John Harbison's limpid "Milosz Songs," a setting of poems by Czeslaw Milosz, featuring delicate interludes by harp and celesta.
