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minette
noun 2
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4ADJ.
mammoth
VERB + MINETTE
bears, ranging
MINETTE + NOUN
novelty, portrait
PREP.
from
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noun
1
The smallest of regular sizes of portrait photographs.
The title page bears a minette portrait of the Duke being crowned by the hand of an ideal figure of Chicago, and below are the coat-of-arms and motto of the Duke's house.
[…] there were hundreds of other sizes of photographic prints ranging from a minette novelty to mammoth views.
2
A mineral deposit consisting of iron ore of sedimentary origin, found in the south of Luxembourg and in Lorraine.
The minettes of Buell Mountain are felsic, and many contain ground-mass quartz.
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The title page bears a minette portrait of the Duke being crowned by the hand of an ideal figure of Chicago, and below are the coat-of-arms and motto of the Duke's house.
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[…] there were hundreds of other sizes of photographic prints ranging from a minette novelty to mammoth views.
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The minettes of Buell Mountain are felsic, and many contain ground-mass quartz.
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