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DAINTILY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a dainty and fastidious manner
Example:
she nibbled daintily at her cake
Classified under:
Pertainym:
dainty (excessively fastidious and easily disgusted)
Sense 2
Meaning:
In a delicate manner
Example:
the invitation cards were written up daintily in white and gold
Classified under:
Pertainym:
dainty (delicately beautiful)
Context examples:
A red chaperon or cap, with long hanging cornette, sat daintily on the back of his black-curled head, while his gold-hued shoes were twisted up a la poulaine, as though the toes were shooting forth a tendril which might hope in time to entwine itself around his massive leg.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Once it was a wild sow which scuttled out of the bracken, with two young sounders at her heels, and once a lordly red staggard walked daintily out from among the tree trunks, and looked around him with the fearless gaze of one who lived under the King's own high protection.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
