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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Petite \Pe*tite"\, adjective [F., fem. of petit.] Small, little; of a woman or girl, of small size and trim figure. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
petite
adjective: very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy" [syn: {bantam}, {diminutive}, {lilliputian}, {midget}, {tiny}, {flyspeck}]
noun: a garment size for short or slender women
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
28 Moby Thesaurus words for "petite": bantam, cramped, dainty, delicate, diminutive, dinky, dwarf, exiguous, half-pint, knee-high, lilliputian, limited, little, miniature, monkey, one-horse, piddling, pindling, pint-sized, poky, puny, short, slight, small, smallish, tiny, two-by-four, wee
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