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- noun Plural form of
dainty . - noun Women's undergarments.
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Examples
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The best thing I did for myself after weaning was go to a shop that specializes only in dainties and had a bra fitting.
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The monasteries were real magazines of charming dainties, which is one reason why certain connoisseurs so bitterly regret them.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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The jailer was the first to enter; he placed upon the table the provisions, which the kind-hearted governor called dainties, and then left the room.
Ten Years Later Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836
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Among the dainties was a live pig, which squeaking and grunting in anticipation of its fate, supplied to this orderly procession the absence of a musical band.
A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. 1 Otto von Kotzebue 1816
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No waiting for our stuff to get in/out of storage, no worry that my china would be broken, no embarassment of movers finding "adult content" or going thru my "dainties".
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No waiting for our stuff to get in/out of storage, no worry that my china would be broken, no embarassment of movers finding "adult content" or going thru my "dainties".
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Crystal: Sheriff - Survived albeit with a half a gol'darned dozen er so Swiss cheese holes in her "dainties"...
GAMING NEWS: Shoot Out At The A-1 Corral (19 April 2006)! MaksimSmelchak 2006
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Crystal: Sheriff - Survived albeit with a half a gol'darned dozen er so Swiss cheese holes in her "dainties"...
Archive 2006-04-01 MaksimSmelchak 2006
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It is possible they might expect other kind of dainties, according to the vain musings of that nation.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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These are the "dainties" of which an impotent longing and desire do betray the minds of unstable persons unto a compliance with ways of sin and folly; for I look on these "dainties" to comprise whatever "the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh," or "the pride of life," can afford.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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