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
A withered leprechaun set eyes into the head of a minikin hound.
From The Door Through Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley
It is a very small bag, containing a yet smaller rolled-up housewife furnished with minikin needles and fine thread.
From Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record by William Austen-Leigh
They are to poetry what charming little Dresden china figures are to sculpture: graceful, minikin, fantastic; with a certain beauty always accompanying them.
From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by George Saintsbury
