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/mˈɪniətʃˌʊr/ /mˈɪnɪtʃˌʊr/ Listen

Miniature

adjective

Being on a very small scale.

noun

Painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts). Synonym: illumination.

A copy that reproduces a person or thing in greatly reduced size. Synonym: toy.

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... low stern, and when the bark had reached a part of the lake where the waves were rolling with some force, it was found that the vast weight was too much to be lifted by the feeble and broken efforts of these miniature seas. The consequences were, however, more vexatious than alarming. A few wet feet among the less quiet of the passengers, with an occasional slapping of a sheet of water against the gangways, and a consequent drift of spray across the pile of human heads in the centre of the ...

— The Headsman - The Abbaye des Vignerons • James Fenimore Cooper

... feeling of liking or of irritation between two strangers. Who does not dislike a "boneless" hand extended as though it were a spray of sea-weed, or a miniature boiled pudding? It is equally annoying to have one's hand clutched aloft in grotesque affectation and shaken violently sideways, as though it were being used to clean a spot out of the atmosphere. What woman does not wince at the viselike grasp that cuts her rings into ...

— Etiquette • Emily Post

... war between slavery and freedom was fought out in miniature in Kansas, the immediate issue was the preservation of slavery in Missouri. This, however, involved directly the prospect of emancipation in other border States and ultimate complete emancipation in all the States. The issue is well stated in a Fourth ...

— The Anti-Slavery Crusade - Volume 28 In The Chronicles Of America Series • Jesse Macy

... table he fastened an arrangement with two upright posts supporting a dial which he called a "dynamometer." The uprights were braced in the back, and the whole thing reminded me of a miniature guillotine. ...

— The Silent Bullet • Arthur B. Reeve

... at this time a miniature Geneva. There was something in the temper of its inhabitants that made it especially susceptible to the wave of Puritanism that was sweeping over England. Lollardy had flourished among them so far back as the reign of Richard II; when the mayor, as folks told ...

— By What Authority? • Robert Hugh Benson

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