Both Uses of
diminutive
in
Interview with the Vampire
- I even conceived a savage jealousy of the dollmaker to whom she'd confided her request for that tinkling diminutive lady, because that dollmaker had for a moment given her something which she held close to herself in my presence as if I were not there at all.†
Part 3 *diminutive = very small
- She seemed excited by the diminutive beauty, the awful woman's-passion knotted in the small dimpled hands.†
Part 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(diminutive) very small
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, diminutive can reference a noun modified by as suffix (such as -let, -ette) to indicate smallness such as booklet, piglet, towelette, or cigarette.