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Definition of Pettier
1. petty [adj] - See also: petty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pettier
Literary usage of Pettier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of Mark Twain by Mark Twain (1908)
"The great continental hotels keep a cashier on a trifling salary, and a pettier
who pays the hotel a salary. By the latter system both the hotel and the ..."
2. A Handbook of Attic Red-figured Vases Signed by Or Attributed to the Various by Joseph Clark Hoppin (1919)
"pettier, Gaz. Arch. 1888, p. 172. Rayet, Bull. d. Ant. d. France, 1878, p. 48.
Coll. Rayet, no. 146. Klein, p. 126, no. 4; Euphronios, p. 301, no. 3. ..."