dainty
IPA: dˈeɪnti
noun
- A delicacy (in taste).
- (Canadian prairies, Northwestern Ontario, usually in the plural) A fancy cookie, pastry, or square, frequently homemade, served at a social event.
- (obsolete) Esteem, honour.
- (obsolete) An affectionate term of address.
adjective
- Elegant; delicately small and pretty.
- Fastidious and fussy, especially when eating.
- (obsolete) Excellent; valuable, fine.
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Examples of "dainty" in Sentences
- The cookies are in dainty size.
- Come paint the dawn with dainty elephants.
- Hasty then came alongside Dainty and took off the survivors.
- The range, named Dainty Doll, was released on 18 April 2008.
- Your dainty Fairy wren only has to worry about the Peregrine.
- She is a charming little actress, dainty, earnest, and unaffected.
- The word dainty is a subversive affirmation of a feminized universe.
- Look at how thin and dainty they are, especially in the neck region.
- The specific epithet 'orchidioides' refers to dainty, orchid like flowers.
- I had the idea of presenting the pots of cream like dainty packets of sweets.
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