Petite vs Perite - What's the difference?
petite | perite |
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)
(obsolete) skilled
* 1820 , Blackwood's magazine (volume 7, page 668)
As adjectives the difference between petite and perite
is that petite is of a woman: fairly short and of slim build while perite is skilled.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?
