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Lilliputian

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Lilliputian 

dwarf, a person of very small size. The term comes from J. Swift’s novel Gulliver’s Travels, which described an imaginary country inhabited by tiny people.
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So saying he paused and listened, as if in an ecstasy, to a sound which seemed to me no better than a tiny chirping from an innumerable multitude of lilliputian grasshoppers.
Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context
As for the rest, every bit was made by her own hands--featherstitched pinning blankets, a crocheted jacket and cap, knitted mittens, embroidered bonnets; slim little princess slips of sensible length; underskirts on absurd Lilliputian yokes; silk-embroidered white flannel petticoats; stockings and crocheted boots, seeming to burgeon before her eyes with wriggly pink toes and plump little calves; and last, but not least, many deliciously soft squares of bird's-eye linen.
The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack View in context
Some are such little creatures, that the stairs are of Lilliputian measurement, fitted to their tiny strides.
American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context
 
 
 
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