jaunty
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Jaunty Beau was born on 31 January and his parents, Mary and Peter McDonnell, from Portaferry in County Down, have been trying to bring him home since.
From BBC • Feb. 22, 2024
Jaunty, lumpy monoliths built from an encrustation of sparkly glass beads by Mexican artist Raúl de Nieves are like humanoid stalagmites discovered deep within Plato’s cave.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2019
Jaunty little hat-shaped tortelli, finished with brown butter and snowflakes of ricotta salata, were just translucent enough to reveal their emerald-colored filling, a luscious purée of spinach and mascarpone.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 23, 2018
Jaunty music played in the background, and all around him people posed in front of #cokeplay billboards, then handed their phones over to prove they got the hashtags right to receive their prize: another advertisement.
From Washington Times • Feb. 25, 2018
Jaunty clean-cut fellas, walking like they had someplace to be.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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