dainty

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
dainty/ˈdeɪnti/

▶adjective (daintier, daintiest)

• 1 delicately small and pretty.

  ■ delicate and graceful in build or movement.

• 2 fastidious, typically concerning food.

▶noun (pl. dainties) a delicacy.

– derivatives
daintily adverb,
daintiness noun.

– origin ME (as n.): from OFr. daintie, deintie ‘choice morsel, pleasure’, from L. dignitas ‘worthiness or beauty’, from dignus ‘worthy’.