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How can you use “dainty” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
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.
I dream'd this mortal part of mineWas Metamorphoz'd to a Vine;Which crawling one and every wayEnthralled my dainty Lucia .Me thought, her long small legs & thighsI with my Tendrils did surprize;Her Belly, Buttocks, and her WasteBy my soft Nerv'lits were embrac'd :About her head I writhing hung,And with rich clusters (hid amongThe leaves) her temples I behung:So that my Lucia seem'd to meYoung Bacchus ravisht by his tree.My curles about her neck did craule,And armes and hands they did enthrall;So that she could not freely stir,(All parts there made one prisoner.)
This was soon joined, and ultimately replaced by surfer [1913], and the earliest quotation for surfer , being part of an account of “a surfer's companion,” a dainty article intended to hold bathing suit and wet towel in a water-proof case, suggests that there was a potential market amongst the fraternity (a writer in 1919 saying emphatically that “Surf-Bathing is dangerous for women”).
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.
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