gainly

Definitions


[ˈɡeɪnli], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- graceful and well-proportioned
(e.g: this is not a commodious alley, or a gainly street, but it has class)


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Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘suitable, fitting’): from obsolete gain ‘straight’, from Old Norse gegn




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