minikin
Example Sentences
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They are mounted each year with grand ingenuity and minikin budgets.
From The Guardian • Aug. 7, 2010
No, she is borne on a whispering bejeweled wind of minikin glittering wings.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a very small bag is deposited a little rolled up housewife, furnished with minikin needles and fine thread.
From Memoir of Jane Austen by Austen-Leigh, James Edward
A minikin three-and-a-half-feet Colonel, being one day at the drill, was examining a strapper of six feet four.
It may be said of it, as Thackery said of Gay's pastorals: "It is to poetry what charming little Dresden china figures are to sculpture, graceful, minikin, fantastic, with a certain beauty always accompanying them."
From From Chaucer to Tennyson by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
