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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

... Alie showed great concern. One was of pretty pink glazed calico and of some other shiny stuff called 'chintz'—white, with tiny lines of different colours; she also bought some red cotton velvet and neat-looking white spotted muslin, and several yards of very narrow lace of a very small and dainty pattern, and other things, all of which interested Alie very much indeed, though after a while Biddy got tired of looking on, and went and stood at ...

— The Rectory Children • Mrs Molesworth

... metamorphosed into a decent, dear little room, about nine by eleven, and commanding the sun on the four sides of its quadrangle. In fact, it was a veritable sun-bath; and how dainty was the tip-drip of the icicles from the big elm-bough, upon the little roof! To this spot I used to travel down in all weathers; sometimes when it was so slippery on the hill behind the carriage-house (for the garden paths were impassable in winter) that I have had to return to primitive ...

— McClure's Magazine, Vol. VI., No. 6, May, 1896 • Various

... she asked, spreading her dainty hands in the sunshine as though to warm them. She never feared the sun, for he was friendly to her nativity and never seemed to scorch her fair skin like that of ...

— Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster • F. Marion Crawford

... small white hands all the time she was doing it. Neither of us had ever seen such before—the dainty skin, the pink ...

— Robbery Under Arms • Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf Boldrewood

... room. At the end of the dainty boudoir she saw the Duchess lounging luxuriously on an ottoman covered with brown velvet and placed in the centre of a sort of apse outlined by soft folds of white muslin over a yellow lining. Ornaments of ...

— At the Sign of the Cat and Racket • Honore de Balzac

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