dainties
- plural of dainty.
Example Sentences
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This interests me as a writer because sometimes these dainties appear unbidden, and you know you’re onto something.
From New York Times • Jul. 31, 2019
The food will be catered by STK — a steak house — and among the dainties: octopus ceviche, beef tartare. foie gras mousse, beets and boucheron, and tuna apple crudo.
From Washington Times • Apr. 22, 2015
Playing cards Writing love poetry Practising fencing moves In which work of fiction portraying the English aristocracy do crust-free cucumber dainties become the object of a lie?
From BBC • May 16, 2012
The restaurants’ Mad Hatter Tea ramps up the traditional three tiers of dainties for Americans whose eyes are never bigger than their stomachs.
From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2011
Probably nothing but dainties: butterfly steaks and marigold salads.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
