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• n  a garment size for short or slender women
• s  very small
  her petite figure

• As if that wasn't enough strain on her petite body, Fassie determinedly put on a frenetic dance show.
• Steaming in through San Francisco's Golden Gate, last week, came the President McKinley, bearing a petite, blue-eyed German Fraulein of twenty-two.
• He says he is the hooded man in the picture in which a petite, dark-haired woman in camouflage pants and an Army T shirt gives a thumbs-up as she points to a prisoner's genitals.

• bantam
• diminutive
• lilliputian
• midget
• tiny
• flyspeck

News & Articles

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• Mickelson tied for lead in ‘difficult’ Open
  ARDMORE, Pa. — Merion might be petite, but she sure packs a big punch. One hundred and fifty six players began this 113th U.S. Open. As darkness fell yesterday over the venerable old course that has hosted more USGA events than any course in America, two players are under par...
  June 15, 2013 - New York Post
• Hatyina sentenced to 10 years for boating homicide
  David Hatyina, who previously pleaded guilty to operating his boat under the influence of alcohol and cocaine when he ran over Libertyville 10-year-old Tony Borcia on Petite Lake last summer, was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday. After two days of emotional victim-impact statements, Kane County Judge Clint Hull handed down his ruling. More to come. …
  June 15, 2013 - Lake Zurich Courier
• Hayek: Pregnancy helped me
  Salma Hayek loves her daughter, but she wasn't exactly basking in the glow of pregnancy before Valentina's September 2007 birth. Recalling the experience in a new interview with Glamour magazine's Glam Belleza Latina , the 46-year-old Mexican-American stunner says putting 50 pounds on her petite frame changed her self-perception and -- initially, at least -- not for the better.
  June 14, 2013 - NBC NEWS