Minette

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The smallest of regular sizes of portrait photographs. dated

    "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. 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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