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• Maddy was a dainty and feminine tomboy with a disposition both loving and tough as nails.2013, Sam Kauffman, MADDY - Courage and Heart: Life Lessons From a Puppy Handbook, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 138. From the entry dudette
• Like magic, Carla transformed from the dainty pixie into a hardcore, no-nonsense businesswoman right before his eyes.2011, L. E. Newell, Durty South Grind, page 138. From the entry pixie
• Her dainty feet were covered with toerings and tinkling anklets while glass bangles covered her arms.2005, Ira Pande, Diddi: My Mother's Voice, Penguin, published 2005, →ISBN, page 120. From the entry toering
• Season's most popular blouses feature push-up sleeves, little- boy collars, dainty ties.1952, Jet, page 41. From the entry push-up
• Then she held up a dainty lavalliere, with a pendant containing a superb pearl.1914, Edith Van Dyne [pseudonym: Lyman Frank Baum], chapter XV, in Aunt Jane’s Nieces Out West, Chicago,: The Reilly & Britton Co.. From the entry lavaliere
• Although they are so small and dainty, they are classified botanically as shrubs!1905, Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas, page 462. From the entry pyxie
• For the technical rehearsal, Beckett reduced the size of Willie's handkerchief, ridiculously dainty when it perched unprotectively on Willie's bald head.2014, Ruby Cohn, Just Play: Beckett's Theater, page 255. From the entry unprotectively
• Wagashi are very dainty and attractive sweets that are made from riceflour, wheatflour, sweetened adzuki beans, and various seasonal fruits.2004, Mutsuko Tokunaga, translated by Yoko Toyozaki and Stuart Atkin, “Green Tea and Japanese Confectioneries”, in New Tastes in Green…. From the entry riceflour
• I don't want dainty little moments of insight.1991, Douglas Coupland, “Adventure without Risk is Disneyland”, in Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, New York, N.Y.: St.…. From the entry sublime
• Amy spent the morning baking and this afternoon brought the result — dainty little fancies all fudged and fruited up.1971, Francis Oswald Bennett, March of the Little Men, page 176. From the entry fruit up
• Combined with melted marshmallows and whipped cream, it’s both calory-ful and colorful—so make the servings dainty, she warns.1956 October 25, Betty Bushman, “Mrs. Russell Johansen Gives Favorite Coffee Time Recipes Including Christmas Cookies”, in Santa Cruz…. From the entry calorie-ful
• He scorned my wholesome kennel fare, toothing out dainties and leaving the grosser portions to be finished by the other dogs.1944, Emily Carr, “Lorenzo Was Registered”, in The House of All Sorts. From the entry gross
• Many toadstools are dainty enough to deserve their popular names: "Pixies' parasols," "Fairies' bath," "Elf cups," and so on.1936 March 21, The Weekly Times, Melbourne, page 43, column 5. From the entry elf-cup
• Call away let him: thy quarrons dainty is.1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry quarrons
• It is so dainty for a baking dish.1917 November 1, Vogue, page 128. From the entry bakingware
• Gay as a flutter of butterflies and light as a zephyr, these dainty fabrics instantly suggest a wardrobe of sheer delight.1901, Country Life, volume 40, number July, page 2. From the entry delight
• It is practically a comic opera, possessing a splenditude of the daintiest and most catchy music of the season.1901 November 29, “[Amusements.] That Funny Girl from Paris.””, in Evening Report, volume XII, number 24, Lebanon, Pa., page 4, column 2. From the entry splenditude
• When I bade him sit, he selected the daintiest chair in the room—one with saberlegs—and perched on it like a white-breasted dark-blue bird.2019, Russell H. Greenan, The Secret Life of Algernon Pendleton, page 67. From the entry saberleg
• She was taking dainty steps as she stalked over to the dresser and rubbed against first its wooden legs, then the chair's.2015, Beverly Lewis, The Love Letters, Baker Books, →ISBN. From the entry doppich
• To counter the heft of such big leaves, add dainty flowering plants like Yellow Waxbells (Kirengeshoma palmata) or the underused astrantia in red or maroon.2009 May 14, Stephen Orr, “Plants That Like to Get Their Feet Wet”, in New York Times. From the entry astrantia
• If these dainty adventurers weren’t being chased by a sleuth of bears or bogeys, they were being captured by Gypsies or thieves.1995, Bobbie Ann Mason, The Girl Sleuth, page 13. From the entry sleuth
• She reads out the descriptions, snorting with stied laughter: “‘Delightfully trimmed in dainty lace, with extra support for the mature gure.’ That means big bazooms.1988, Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye. From the entry bazoom
• But Pat Bramble, the small and dainty Pat, snatched herself loose from her policeman, lowered her head, and rammed him agonizingly in the gendarmish belly.1933, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 12, in Ann Vickers, page 144. From the entry gendarmish
• She led the way through a wide hall into a charming room, where a table was already spread in its dainty napery and silver.1902, Josephine Spenser, Corner in Chrysanthemums. From the entry napery
• There's many an hour's helpful instruction in dainty needlework, eveningsful of absorbing fiction by the great writers — dinners and luncheons, scores of them.1902, Life - Volume 40, page 546. From the entry eveningful
• The coppa di testa sounds daintier than what it really is: a pig's head seasoned and rolled, then sous-vided for 18 hours and sliced like ham.2011, Ed Levine, Serious Eats, page 311. From the entry sous-vide
• Low tea, the original aristocratic late afternoon break for conversation and dainty delicacies was a very social time and was served in the 'low' part of the day.2008, Emily Thacker, Vinegar & Tea. From the entry low tea
• Louis had adopted the same dainty stance – left leg forward, toes pointed, foot arched – in Rigaud's justly famous swagger portrait of the monarch in full ceremonial regalia.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 2. From the entry swagger portrait
• Other breads include bulochky, plain or rich rolls, pyrohy, yeast-raised rolls or short pastry dainties with sweet or savory filling in a standard oblong shape tapering at the ends.1980 July 19, Helen Bosavage, “Bread is basic — and beautiful”, in Pottsville Republican, volume CLXLII, number 70, Pottsville, Pa., page…. From the entry bulochka
• I mastered the art of crocheting and tatting, and there was a lifetime’s supply of dainty doilies that would never be used in sacheted dresser drawers.1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 16, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 87. From the entry sacheted
• Sonia, with a woman's dainty deftness in small matters, dug out the chocolate-colored opium from a little white jar, a "toey," cooking it over a steady flame of peanut-oil.1915, George Bronson Howard, God's Man, Indianapolis, I.N.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 127. From the entry toy
• Sandwiches done up in chocolate-colored parafine paper (this paper may be colored by browning in the oven), and olives will make a very dainty repast for this latest.1903 March 6, The Andover Townsman, volume XVI, number 21, Andover, Mass., page 2, column 2. From the entry chocolatière

Meaning of dainty

1. adjective Elegant; delicately small and pretty.
2. adjective Fastidious and fussy, especially when eating.
3. adjective Excellent; valuable, fine.

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How do you use dainty in a sentence?

Dainty is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The cutting sides were gay with heather in bloom, and masses of dainty Scots bluebells, while patches of clear sky overhead were bringing life and colour to the sea.”

What is a short sentence with dainty?

“Call away let him: thy quarrons dainty is.”

What does dainty mean?

Dainty means elegant; delicately small and pretty.