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Dainty
Definitions
- 1 Elegant; delicately small and pretty.
"As for thoſe People of the Eaſt, (Goa, Calecute, Malaca,) they vvere a Fine, and Dainty People; Frugall, and yet Elegant, though not Militar."
- 2 Fastidious and fussy, especially when eating.
"UUho when he ſhal embrace you in his arms UUil tell how many thouſand men he ſlew. And when you looke for amorous diſcourſe, Will rattle foorth his facts of war and blood: Too harſh a ſubiect for your daintie eares."
- 3 Excellent; valuable, fine. obsolete
"Heliogabalus the most dissolute man of the world, amidst his most riotous sensualities, intended, whensoever occasion should force him to it, to have a daintie death."
- 1 delicately beautiful wordnet
- 2 excessively fastidious and easily disgusted wordnet
- 3 especially pleasing to the taste wordnet
- 1 A delicacy (choice or pleasing food).
"And she receyued hym with grete Ioye and made hym to sytte doune by her and soo was he sette to soupe with flesshe and many deyntees And she received him with great joy, and made him to sit down by her, and so was he set to sup with flesh and many dainties."
- 2 something considered choice to eat wordnet
- 3 A fancy cookie, pastry, or square, frequently homemade, served at a social event. British-Columbia, Canadian-Prairies, Northwestern, Ontario, plural-normally
- 4 Esteem, honour. obsolete
- 5 An affectionate term of address. obsolete
"I am not eager at forbidden dainties"
Etymology
From Middle English deynte (as noun), from Old French deintié, from Latin dignitātem. Doublet of dignity.
From Middle English deynte (as noun), from Old French deintié, from Latin dignitātem. Doublet of dignity.
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