Petite vs Petit - What's the difference?
petite | petit |
Of a woman: fairly short and of slim build.
Of women's clothing: of small size.
Small, little; insignificant; petty.
* 1662 , Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Systems of the World (Dialogue Two)
(legal, or, obsolete) small or minor
* South
As adjectives the difference between petite and petit
is that petite is of a woman: fairly short and of slim build while petit is small or minor.petite
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The Earth, the Sun, and Stars, what things are they in nature? are they petite things not worth our notice, or grand and worthy of consideration?
References
* ----petit
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- By what small, petit hints does the mind catch hold of and recover a vanishing notion.
