ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Minette

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Minette is a noun meaning (mineralogy) A mineral deposit consisting of iron ore of sedimentary origin, found in the south of Luxembourg and in Lorraine.

Meaning

(mineralogy) A mineral deposit consisting of iron ore of sedimentary origin, found in the south of Luxembourg and in Lorraine.

More Meanings

  1. (dated) The smallest of regular sizes of portrait photographs.

Example Sentences

The minettes of Buell Mountain are felsic, and many contain ground-mass quartz.
[…] there were hundreds of other sizes of photographic prints ranging from a minette novelty to mammoth views.
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.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include miniportrait, subminiature, miniature, minikin, microminiature, microcopy.

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