petit

/pəˈtiː/ · noun

Meaning

(usually in the plural) A little schoolboy.
A kind of pigeon.
(of size) Petite: small, little.
Petty, in its various senses:
The size of type between minion and bourgeois, standardized as 8-point.

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Related words

little(English)tiny(English)small-time(English)teeny(English)teensy(English)small-scale(English)small(English)short(English)beurre(English)bateau(English)serail(English)mans(English)

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