mincingest

Updated: May 29, 2025

And she walks in one of Botticelli's light dancing actions, her drapery all on flutter, and her hand, like Fortitude's, light on the sword-hilt, but daintily not nervously, the little finger laid over the cross of it. And at the first glance you will think the figure merely a piece of fifteenth-century affectation. 'Judith, indeed! say rather the daughter of Herodias, at her mincingest.

John Ruskin - Mornings in Florence