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peat | petite |

As a noun peat

is soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas.

As an adjective petite is

of a woman: fairly short and of slim build.

peat

English

Etymology 1

Origin unknown; perhaps a borrowing from an unattested Pictish or Brythonic source.

Noun

  • Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas.
    • Derived terms
    * peaty
    See also
    * (wikipedia)

    Etymology 2

    Compare .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A pet, a darling; a woman.
  • * 1594 , , I. i. 78 :
    • And let it not displease thee, good Bianca, / For I will love thee ne'er the less, my girl. / A pretty peat !

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    petite

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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)
    • 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?

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