petite
Example Sentences
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“It’s no different than plus sizes, petites and maternity,” Scheier said.
From Washington Post • Aug. 2, 2019
A guest member needs a Paris atelier and a certain number of petites mains—a house’s skilled artisans, most of them women, who do the hand sewing that defines haute couture.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 21, 2016
There are also many helpers, or petites mains.
From Forbes • Apr. 16, 2015
Instead, les petites mains — "the little hands" from Dior atelier's design team — came out to a roaring standing ovation.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 7, 2011
It chattered excitedly as Cassiopeia fed it petites madeleines out of her reticule.
From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood
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