The quality of being appealing in a delicate or graceful way (of a girl or young woman)

Usage examples of prettiness.

Her armor could hide neither her prettiness nor the form that bespoke her sex.

He thought of her as his last fleeting glimpse had shown her, beautiful, not with the blossomy prettiness that passes away with the spring sunshine, but with a rich vitality of which noble outlines and winning expression were only the natural accidents.

There was affectation and sentimentality about his work, a prettiness of face, rosy flesh tints, and a general lightness of color, but he was a superior brushman, a good colorist, and, at times, a man of earnestness and power.

Miss Overmore, however hungry, never disappeared: this marked her somehow as of higher rank, and the character was confirmed by a prettiness that Maisie supposed to be extraordinary.

He smiled at her, liking her scented prettiness, glad that he would soon be away from her speckless housekeeping and her dangerous plants.

Not one word did he say about it, other than to remark on the prettiness of the royal purple bliaut with gold trim that she wore that evening.

He went away again before Claribel could ask any questions and presently returned with the girl, small and slim and dark with an elfin prettiness and an air of helplessness.

Miss Primrose was sitting bolt upright in a straight backed old fashioned chair, against a background of fine old tapestries, faded to the softest loveliest pastel tints -- as incongruous with her grotesque ugliness as had been the fresh prettiness of the Crabapple Blossoms.

No longer the little prettinesses of the Medicean Venus flirt by you in the nervous silks that flutter along these walks, but something nobly womanly, of a solid past, slow and stately, moves solemnly, by.

They were pretty enough, but my head was full of my perfidious charmer, and besides, despite their neatness and prettiness, they were wanting in that grace which adds so many charms to pleasure.

With her ivory complexion and long black hair, she was still attractive, but her cheekbones and nose weren't prominent enough for her to retain her prettiness as she grew older, despite the cosmetology of the Empire.

It contrives to be intimate without being claustrophobic and gracious without descending into either monumentality or prettiness.

I supposed there could be criteria, of one sort or another, in some place or another, of a somewhat ascertainable, quantitative sort, perhaps what men might be willing to pay for you, but even then they would probably be paying for a spectrum of desirabilities, of which prettiness, per se, might be only one, and perhaps not even the most important.

Just one look at her face and one inevitable thought of her prettiness would be distraction enough to fuzz out the screen.

They leaned across a table, each staring into the other's face, and Gonzales thought how much he loved every mark of passing time on her facethey had taken her from a young girl's prettiness to a mature woman's beauty.