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Definition of Minikins
1. minikin [n] - See also: minikin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Minikins
Literary usage of Minikins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Manual of Canon Law by Oswald Joseph Reichel (1896)
"minikins, as their name implies, are feminine monks (24s) who are confined to
their monasteries (249), and called cloistered nuns. ..."
2. The Linleys of Bath by Clementina Black (1911)
"I should be sorry not to know how she looks and the dear little minikins. ...
The minikins," by the way, were increased in number in 1785 by the birth of ..."
3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1870)
"K minikins, who is only five feet five, high boot-heels and all, and who thinks
that the height of ambition is to be tall, averts his head when he passes ..."
4. Southern Literary Messenger by Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Computer Science (1843)
"The fault of this last group is in the little, old-man look of the sons—instead
of being children, they are minikins. Among others of great celebrity in ..."
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