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English
Etymology
From daint or dainty. Compare Old French daintier.
Noun
daintrel (plural daintrels)
- (obsolete) A delicacy.
c. 1553 (date written), “S.” [pseudonym; attributed to William Stevenson], Gammer Gurtons Nedle: , London: Thomas Colwell, published 1575, →OCLC; reprinted as John S. Farmer, editor, Gammer Gurton’s Needle (The Tudor Facsimile Texts), John S. Farmer],
1910,
→OCLC, Act II, scene i,
signature , recto:
But by thy words as I thẽ smelled, thy daintrels be not manye.
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