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daintiest
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Dainty \Dain"ty\, a. [Compar. Daintier ; superl. Daintiest .] Rare; valuable; costly. [Obs.] Full many a deynt['e] horse had he in stable. --Chaucer. Note: Hence the proverb ``dainty maketh dearth,'' i. e., rarity makes a thing dear or precious. ...
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a. (en-superlativedainty)
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Usage examples of daintiest.
They were the prettiest, daintiest folk ever eyes looked upon, well-formed and like to us as could be in the main, but slender and willowy, so dainty and light, both the men and the women, so pretty of cheek and hair, so mild of aspect, I felt, as I strode amongst them, I could have plucked them like flowers and bound them up in bunches with my belt.
I have a sting," and like a thwarted child my companion half drew from the folds of the yellow tunic-dress the daintiest, most harmless-looking little dagger that was ever seen.
She fetched from the boat four little fishes of the daintiest kind imaginable.
The morning sun shone upon her, and she seemed to him to be the daintiest, sweetest tiling upon earth.
Maude, with the golden light playing upon the fringes of her curls, and throwing two little epaulettes of the daintiest pink across her shoulders, sat in silence, glancing across from time to time with interrogative eyes at her husband.
She set on a pair of the daintiest elfin socks that ever were knitted.
Halifax used now and then to laugh at him for being so particular over his daintiest of cambric and finest of lawn--but secretly she took the greatest pride in his appearance.
Next he tried the velvet collar, and smiled a smile of such contentment that it was plain to see that he regarded that as the daintiest thing about an overcoat.
In its cup is the daintiest little facsimile of a dove, as pure as snow.