Definitions
in a dainty and fastidious manner
Word origin
From Middle English deyntely; equivalent to dainty + -ly.
Used in a sentence
“SATURNINUS: Go fetch them hither to us presently. TITUS: Why, there they are, both baked in that pie, Whereof their mother daintily hath fed, Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.”
“Has he beſpoke, what will he have a brace, / Or but one Partridge, or a ſhort-leg'd Hen, / Daintyly carbonado'd?”
“At the last moment Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr. Jones's trap, came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar.”
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01“With delicate care”8 letters
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