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# petite

«petite» in Mova's school dictionary: **Small, short and slim in a pretty way** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (petite)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (of a girl or woman) Small, short and slim in a pretty way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/petite/#m1)

2) Used for clothing sizes for shorter women. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/petite/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life it is used in shops for clothes sizes and to describe someone politely. In stories it describes a small, neat character. A borrowed French word. Phrases: petite size.

### examples

- My aunt is petite and wears small shoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/petite/#x1)
- The shop has a petite section. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/petite/#x2)
- The petite dancer leapt across the stage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/petite/#x3)
- She looked petite next to her tall brother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/petite/#x4)
- These jeans come in petite and tall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/petite/#x5)
- A petite girl in a red coat waved at us. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/petite/#x6)

### note

Borrowed from French (meaning small); say «puh-TEET». Mostly used of women, not men or objects. It is polite and positive, unlike «tiny» or «skinny».

### In the corpora

- [Adjectives agree even after est: il est petit, elle est petite.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/27-adjectives-after-the-noun-and-agreeing/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «petite» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/petite/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.