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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 311 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PRETTY , a word usually applied in the sense of pleasing in See also:

appearance, without connoting those qualities which are described as beautiful or handsome. In Old See also:English praettig meant tricky, cunning or wily, and is thus used to translate the Latin sagax, aslutus, callidus,in a vocabulary of about roo0. Praett meant a See also:trick, and this word is seen in many forms in Dutch, cf. the words prettig, sportive, See also:part, trick. A connexion has been suggested with the See also:Greek srpaicTu.6r, irpa-rrecv, to do, make, through Latin practice, practice, performance; but the New English See also:Dictionary rejects these, as also See also:Celtic See also:sources, as unfounded. From " cunning " to skilful, and thence to its use as a See also:term of See also:general appreciation as is so often used by See also:Pepys, the development is easy.

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