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minikin

[min-i-kin] / ˈmɪn ɪ kɪn /












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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

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

Come, Sister Annot, leave that minikin fiddle-faddle, and come and help with the real work.

From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by M. (Madelaine) Irwin

With me, my fine treble knave? umh, thou dost tickle minikin as nimbly— Mus.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen


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