Both Uses
scanty
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My Antonia
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- Whenever we rode over in that direction we saw her out among her cattle, bareheaded and barefooted, scantily dressed in tattered clothing, always knitting as she watched her herd.†
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- Her yellow hair was burned to a ruddy thatch on her head; but her legs and arms, curiously enough, in spite of constant exposure to the sun, kept a miraculous whiteness which somehow made her seem more undressed than other girls who went scantily clad.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(scanty) small in amount -- often inadequate
or:
of clothes: barely covering the area on which they are worn - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)