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Petite   /pətˈit/   Listen
adjective
petite  adj.  Small, little; used especially of a woman or girl, of small size and trim figure; as, her petite figure.
Synonyms: bantam, diminutive, lilliputian, midget, tiny.


noun
petite  n.  
1.
A size category of women's clothing, for women with less than average height.
2.
An aricle of women's clothing classified in the petite (1) size category.
3.
A girl or woman whose figure is best fit by a petite (1) garment.





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"Petite" Quotes from Famous Books



... que Concord est une petite ville situee sur la Merrimac, de 14,000 a 15,000 habitants, mais ce que je puis vous dire c'est qu'il faudrait aller bien loin pour trouver une ville plus intelligente et plus eclairee, je dirais meme plus patriarcale. Tout le monde s'y connait et s'estime l'un l'autre. Il y a dans cette ...
— The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1 • Various
... and who likewise had resented Robespierre's prying as to the identity of Henriette's visitor, studied the girl at first a bit quizzically. Released from Salpetriere, eh? Was she the same sweet, pure Henriette she knew? Yes, the little Girard—la petite Girard—looked to be the same hard-working, respectable seamstress person of yore, only that she seemed very weak and about ...
— Orphans of the Storm • Henry MacMahon
... cette lettre dans la petite chambre au Jardin chez Leitgeb [a Salzburg horn-player]; ou j'ai couche cette nuit excellement—et j'espere que ma chere epouse aura passe cette nuit aussi bien que moi. J'attend avec beaucoup d'impatience ...
— The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 • Rupert Hughes
... petite figure, and with a face that seemed to belong to a gamin, she presented on the whole a graceful enough ensemble. But there were two drawbacks—her rather large mouth was wreathed in a stereotyped ...
— A Little Garrison - A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day • Fritz von der Kyrburg
... Opera-Comique Feydeau, the precise spot whither Jean Valjean had arrived was called le Petit Picpus. The Porte Saint-Jacques, the Porte Paris, the Barriere des Sergents, the Porcherons, la Galiote, les Celestins, les Capucins, le Mail, la Bourbe, l'Arbre de Cracovie, la Petite-Pologne—these are the names of old Paris which survive amid the new. The memory of the populace hovers over ...
— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo


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