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Mini   /mˈɪni/   Listen
Mini

adjective
1.
Used of women's clothing; very short with hemline above the knee.  "Miniskirts"  Antonyms: maxi, midi.
noun
1.
A very short skirt.  Synonym: miniskirt.






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"Mini" Quotes from Famous Books



... the excellence of the work of each was put to the severest tests, and by which their reputations were established. The result is a rifle, compared with which, as manufactured by a dozen rifle-makers in the United States, the Mini, the Enfield, the Lancaster, or even the Sharpe's, and more recent breech-loaders, are bungling muskets. The last adopted form of missile, the sugar-loaf-shaped, of which the Minie, Enfieid, Colonel Jacob's, and all ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various

... Russia is to be saved,' he shrieked, 'it will be neither by the Fivefold Formula of Freedom nor by the Fourfold Suffrage, but by the Integralists, who alone maintain the purity of the Social Revolutionary programme, as it was before the party degenerated into Maximalists and Mini——' ...
— Ghetto Comedies • Israel Zangwill

... "That mini-transceiver we planted in your neck for the Gienah job," said Stetson. "It's still there and functioning. Anything happens around you, we ...
— Operation Haystack • Frank Patrick Herbert

... here, and I am in great need of some one." All through his life, Michelangelo adopted the plan of keeping a young fellow to act as general servant, and at the same time to help in art-work. Three of these servants are interwoven with the chief events of his later years, Pietro Urbano, Antonio Mini, and Francesco d'Amadore, called Urbino, the last of whom became his faithful and attached friend till death parted them. Women about the house he could not bear. Of the serving-maids at Rome he says: "They are all strumpets and swine." Well, it ...
— The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti • John Addington Symonds

... Nahoum, as though under the stress of feeling, "the cotton-mills at Tashah and Mini are gone—burned to ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker



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