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pretty

/ˈpɹɪt.i/ noun C2
  1. A pretty person; a term of address to a pretty person.
  2. Something that is pretty. · We'll stop at the knife store and look at the sharp pretties.

Plural pretties

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When Aunt Em came there to live she was a young, pretty wife.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 2 · B2
Elizabeth thought this was going pretty far; and she listened with increasing astonishment as the housekeeper added, “I have never had a cross word from him in my life, and I have known him ever since he was four years old.”
Pride and Prejudice, p. 277 · B2
On reaching the spacious lobby above, they were shown into a very pretty sitting-room, lately fitted up with greater elegance and lightness than the apartments below; and were informed that it was but just done to give pleasure to Miss Darcy, who had taken a liking to the room, when last at Pemberley.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 278 · B2
I should as soon call her mother a wit.’ But afterwards she seemed to improve on you, and I believe you thought her rather pretty at one time.”
Pride and Prejudice, p. 305 · B2

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