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 minikin three-and-a-half-feet Colonel, being one day at the drill, was examining a strapper of six feet four.
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 Braybrooke, Richard Griffin, Baron
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 Austen-Leigh, William
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
