Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
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migniard .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Migniard.
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Examples
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Never were seen ladies so proper and handsome, so miniard and dainty, less froward, or more ready with their hand and with their needle in every honest and free action belonging to that sex, than were there.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Never were seen ladies so proper and handsome, so miniard and dainty, less froward, or more ready with their hand and with their needle in every honest and free action belonging to that sex, than were there.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Never were seen ladies so proper and handsome, so miniard and dainty, less forward, or more ready with their hand, and with their needle, in every honest and free action belonging to that sex, than were there.
Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson
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Never were seen ladies so proper and handsome, so miniard and dainty, less froward, or more ready with their hand and with their needle in every honest and free action belonging to that sex, than were there.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Never were seen ladies so proper and handsome, so miniard and dainty, less forward, or more ready with their hand, and with their needle, in every honest and free action belonging to that sex, than were there. "
Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906 Various 1904
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