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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”).
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.
The chief complaints: 1) Wilde's sharp edge has been dulled--it's "likable" and "handsome" but "diluted" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ); 2) the story "unfolds with all the urgency of a dainty tea napkin" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ); and 3) the plot, a blackmail scheme with many moral quandaries to resolve, ends too tidily and happily for its own good.
In 1590 Shakespeare used it in his A Midsummer Night's Dream, v. i 282: O dainty ducke, a deere.
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.