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In effect, the name was an ironic compliment, a friendly jest passed from one scruffy and uncouth people (the traders themselves were hardly known for their dainty manicures and designer coiffures) to another.
We are now perversely disposed to do the same thing with clumpy boots that box feet in or puffy shoes that muffle them up with blobs or colorful wadding, to which delicious concoctions have been added--the weighty clogs with dainty straps, the lofty heels with splayed bottoms.
In 1590 Shakespeare used it in his A Midsummer Night's Dream, v. i 282: O dainty ducke, a deere.
At ground level, seedy or amusing ( depending on your point of view) shops sell sex wares, attracting customers from all walks of life; but don’t get too distracted, else you’ll miss the rows of dainty gables, quirky wall plaques, and window boxes brimming with flowers, which give the whole area a cheery feel.
It is also possible they are a corruption of poppet, poppit, poppette, poopet, from the French poupette doll, an endearment still used though ancient, poppet being the name for a pretty child or a dainty young woman.