minikin

• “They are mounted each year with grand ingenuity and minikin budgets.”

  The Guardian: Francesca da Rimini, Fantastic Mr Fox; BBC Proms 24 & 25

• “It is a very small bag, containing a yet smaller rolled-up housewife furnished with minikin needles and fine thread.”

  Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record

• “Corking, minikin, and all description of pins, were obliged to be made in the regular way; and cows even departed this world without the honour of the human immolations formerly considered the necessary sacrifice for the loss of their inestimable lives.”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 20, 1841

• “The only room I could obtain, which contained a small bed, a minikin table, and two common chairs, cost me fifty francs a month, (about two pounds sterling), and I was considered fortunate in having such good lodgings.”

  A Sailor of King George

• “The Jesuits have the Cure there, with a fine habitation and a mill; in digging the foundation of which last, a quarry of orbicular flat stones was found, about two inches in diameter, of the shape of a buffoon's cap, with six sides, whose groove was set with small buttons of the size of the head of a minikin or small pin.”

  History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing

• “Judy, talking the whole time, pulled all her treasures out in a heap, took a quick glance at them and went straight for the one she liked best -- a minikin black baby 2 in a wicker cradle.”

  Mrs. Miniver

• “Against such minikin blossoms a drop of dew looks the size of a gazing-crystal, and the ordinary lemon-yellow hawkbit towers above them like a sunflower.”

  Try Anything Twice

• “It consists of a narrow strip of flowered silk, embroidered at the back, which measures four inches by one and a quarter, and is furnished with minikin needles and fine thread.”

  Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends

• “Adrian Le Roy's book, published in Paris about 1570, says the six strings were tuned as follows -- 1st (minikin), C in third space, treble staff; 2nd (small mean), G on second line; 3rd (great mean), D under the staff; 4th (counter-tenor), B flat over the bass staff; 5th”

  Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries

• “It may be said of it, as Thackery said of Gay's pastorals: "It is to poetry what charming little Dresden china figures are to sculpture, graceful, minikin, fantastic, with a certain beauty always accompanying them.”

  From Chaucer to Tennyson

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