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Definition of Pretty-pretty
1. Adjective. Ostentatiously or inappropriately pretty.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pretty-pretty
Literary usage of Pretty-pretty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... sweet voice, tone, O that pretty tone, her divine and lovely looks, her
everything, lovely, sweet, amiable, and pretty, pretty, pretty. ..."
2. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"... sweet voice, tone, O that pretty tone, her divine and lovely looks, her
everything, lovely, sweet, amiable, and pretty, pretty, pretty. ..."
3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1905)
"... sweet voice, tone, O that pretty tone, her divine and lovely looks, her
everything, lovely, sweet, amiable, and pretty, pretty, pretty. ..."
4. Essays in the Study of Folk-songs by Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco (1886)
"Here is a specimen: The sun beats from the mountain's top, Pretty, pretty : The
partridge comes from her nest; She was saluted by the flowers, ..."
5. Fraser's Magazine (1876)
"Ah! pretty, pretty, All! dear little partridge ! Ti'.v feathers are soft. Thy neck
is long, ... Ah ! pretty, pretty, Ah ! beautiful little partridge ! ..."
6. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1876)
"Here is a specimen : Tho sun beats from the mountain's top Pretty, pretty : Tlie
partridge comes from her nest ; She was saluted by the flower», ..."
7. The new and complete dictionary of the English languageby John Ash by John Ash (1795)
"Prêt*tier (adj. сотр. of pretty) Pretty in a greater degree. ... (adj. fup.
of pretty) Pretty in the ..."
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