2. Delicious to the palate; toothsome.

Dainty bits

Make rich the ribs.

Shak.

3. Nice; delicate; elegant, in form, manner, or breeding; well-formed; neat; tender.

Those dainty limbs which nature lent

For gentle usage and soft delicacy.

Milton.

I would be the girdle.

About her dainty, dainty waist.

Tennyson.

4. Requiring dainties. Hence: Overnice; hard to please; fastidious; squeamish; scrupulous; ceremonious.

Thew were a fine and dainty people.

Bacon.

And let us not be dainty of leave-taking,

But shift away.

Shak.

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