dainty

• adj.おいしい; 手の込んだ; 派手な; うるさい
• n. おいしい

フランス語から。語源的にはdignity（威厳）、dignity（威厳）、beauty（美しさ）と同じで、gの文字が抜けている。

dainty

dainty: [13] In origin, dainty is the same word as dignity. The direct descendant of Latin dignitās in Old French was daintie or deintie, but Old French later reborrowed the word as dignete. It was the latter that became English dignity, but daintie took a route via Anglo-Norman dainte to give English dainty. At first it meant ‘honour, esteem’, but before a century was up it had passed through ‘pleasure, joy’ to ‘something choice, luxury’. The first record of its adjectival use comes in the 14th century, when it meant ‘choice, excellent, delightful’; this soon developed to ‘delicately pretty’.
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dainty (n.)

c. 1300, "excellence, elegance; a luxury," from Old French deintie (12c.) "price, value," also "delicacy, pleasure," from Latin dignitatem (nominative dignitas) "greatness, rank, worthiness, worth, beauty," from dignus "worthy" (see dignity).

dainty (adj.)

c. 1300, deinte, "delightful, pleasing," from dainty (n.). Meaning evolved in Middle English to "choice, excellent" (late 14c.) to "delicately pretty." Related: Daintiness.

1. a dainty porcelain cup

小さくて精巧な磁器カップ

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2.The little girl wore a dainty dress.

女の子はきれいなワンピースを着ています。

3.The violet is a dainty spring flower.

スミレは艶やかな春の花です。

4.She is dainty about her eating.

彼女は食事に凝っている。

5.It featured aソロdance in which a woman in a short overall mimed a lot of dainty housework.

そのハイライトは独舞で、短いブラウスを着た女性がパントマイム形式で家事をする多くのアクションを優雅に披露した。