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Dainty

adjective

(compar. daintier; superl. daintiest)

Affectedly dainty or refined. Synonyms: mincing, niminy-piminy, prim, twee.

Delicately beautiful. Synonym: exquisite. "An exquisite cameo"

Especially pleasing to the taste.

Excessively fastidious and easily disgusted. Synonyms: nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish. "So squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"

noun

(pl. dainties)

Something considered choice to eat. Synonyms: delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat.

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"Dainty" Quotes from Famous Books

... Love knelt down beside the maid And on her breast a hand unfelt he laid, And drew the gown from off her dainty feet, And set his fair cheek to her shoulder sweet, And kissed her lips that knew of no love yet, And wondered if his heart would e'er forget The perfect arm that ...

— The Earthly Paradise - A Poem • William Morris

... Look, What's here! A dainty Golden thing? See how the dancing Bells turn round, and Ring To please my Bantling! here's a Knack will breed, An hundred Kisses; here's a ...

— The School of Recreation (1684 edition) • Robert Howlett

... me go: for, while I linger here, Piping these dainty ditties for your ear, To win that dearer honey for my own, Daylong my Thestylis doth sit alone, Weeping, mayhap, because the gods have given Song but not sheep—the rarer gift of heaven; And little Phyllis solitary grows, ...

— English Poems • Richard Le Gallienne

... What he had thought at twenty, at thirty-five had acquired sanctity and certainty, from having been the opinion of Hubert Temperley for all those favoured years. He had no suspicion that the views which he cherished in so dainty and scholarly a fashion were simply an edition de luxe of the views of everybody else. But his wife had made that discovery long ago. He smiled at the views of everybody else: his own were put forth as something choice and superior. ...

— The Daughters of Danaus • Mona Caird

... Paul's eyes would wander around the table; and from its dainty dishes and exquisite flowers return to their true lodestone, his hostess. In fact, the girl possessed a mesmeric charm for him, which had grown with marvelous ...

— The Ghost of Guir House • Charles Willing Beale

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