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Definition of Prettying
1. pretty [v] - See also: pretty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prettying
Literary usage of Prettying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of England from the fall of Wolsey (to the defeat of the Spanish by James Anthony Froude (1858)
"Thither also many others were The prettying from the same danger, so long as
Crom- well lived, secure of protection.* Henry, too, himself showed occasional ..."
2. Jewett's Manual for Election Officers and Voters in the State of New York by Freeborn G. Jewett (1917)
"... and •prettying the qualification* which entitle him to tote at inch election.
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3. Private Lectures on Perfect Men, Women and Children, in Happy Families by Orson Squire Fowler (1880)
"Why all sweet sixteen charms and half-crazy efforts to get married but to apply
this very knowledge in practice? Girls, either stop " prettying up," or else ..."
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