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minette

noun minettes

  1. dated 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.
  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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@misc{minette_2026,
  title = {minette},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/minette},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}