nattiness


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nat·ty

 (năt′ē)
adj. nat·ti·er, nat·ti·est
Neat, trim, and smart; dapper.
[Perhaps variant of obsolete netty, from net, elegant, from Middle English, from Old French; see neat1.]
nat′ti·ly adv.
nat′ti·ness n.
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Noun1.nattiness - stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance
dapperness, jauntiness, rakishness
chic, chicness, modishness, stylishness, swank, chichi, last word, smartness - elegance by virtue of being fashionable
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Everything belonging to Miss Nancy was of delicate purity and nattiness: not a crease was where it had no business to be, not a bit of her linen professed whiteness without fulfilling its profession; the very pins on her pincushion were stuck in after a pattern from which she was careful to allow no aberration; and as for her own person, it gave the same idea of perfect unvarying neatness as the body of a little bird.
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The fascination of the "grown-up" dollies lay chiefly in their extreme up-to-dateness and modern girl nattiness. Their small-size camiknicks were dreams of sophisticated georgette and lace, their evening gowns were backless and their fur coats, when not being worn, were carefully hung away on hangers.
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you hand him the handkerchief he always kept in his breast pocket--masculinity's last nattiness, starched, arranged like a drooping flower--and stroke his bald head and hold his head to your chest, and the sun plummets down from the sky
The withering of their state & In the reminiscence wing

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