dainty
/ˈdeɪnti/ noun C2- A delicacy (choice or pleasing food).
- A fancy cookie, pastry, or square, frequently homemade, served at a social event.
Plural dainties
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Who for such dainties would not stoop?
Oh, how pretty it was--a lovely soft brown gloria with all the gloss of silk; a skirt with dainty frills and shirrings; a waist elaborately pintucked in the most fashionable way, with a little ruffle of filmy lace at the neck.
Changes had crept in, Marilla conniving at them resignedly, until it was as sweet and dainty a nest as a young girl could desire.
The walls, hung not with gold and silver brocade tapestry, but with a dainty apple-blossom paper, were adorned with a few good pictures given Anne by Mrs.
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