minikin
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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
Who has not heard of Exeter 'Change? celebrated all over England for its menagerie and merchandize—wild beasts and cutlery—kangaroos and fleecy hosiery—elephants and minikin pins—a strange assemblage of nature and art—and savage and polished life.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 376, June 20, 1829 by Various
This day Mr. Caesar told me a pretty experiment of his of angling with a minikin, a gut- string varnished over, which keeps it from swelling, and is beyond any hair for strength and smallness.
From The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Richard Griffin, Baron Braybrooke
"No great mystery; only——" "Only—some minikin mystery?" said Mr. Walsingham.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 05 by Maria Edgeworth
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