OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 23769

dainty

/ˈdeɪnti/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
delicado
Elegant; delicately small and pretty.
However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.
Those dainty limbs which nature lent / For gentle usage and soft delicacy.
mañoso
Fastidious and fussy, especially when eating.
And let us not be dainty of leave taking, / But shift away.
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