Vocabulary
petit
small one (anything that is small); little one (anything that is little); little one; child (of humans or other animals); the young (of a species)
Noun
TPE
initialism of très petite entreprise (“very small business”); initialism of terminal de paiement électronique (“payment terminal”)
Noun
chouchou
term of endearment (like petit chou, mon chou); blue-eyed boy, teacher's pet (student perceived to be favored by the teacher); a hair scrunchie, scrunchy; chayote; candied peanut
Noun
PAC
classified advertisement: abbreviation of petite annonce classée (petite annonce); classifieds: abbreviation of petites annonces classées (petites annonces)
Noun
PAG
initialism of petit âge glaciaire; Little Ice Age (period of cooling that occurred after the Medieval Warm Period, usually defined as between the 14th–16th to the 19th centuries)
Noun
gaillarde
galliard: the size of type between petit-texte and petit-romain, standardized as 9 Fournier points (3.06 mm) then as 8 Didot points (3.00 or 3.01 mm); the galliard, a 16th-century European dance
Noun
petites annonces
ellipsis of petites annonces classées: plural of petite annonce; classifieds (classified advertisements)
Noun
Crèvecœur-le-Petit
Crèvecœur-le-Petit (a commune of Oise department, Hauts-de-France, in northern France)
Name
petites annonces classées
plural of petite annonce classée; Pedantic form of petites annonces.; classifieds (classified advertisements)
Noun
petite souris
tooth fairy; fly on the wall; Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see petite, souris.
Noun
petit axe
minor axis (shortest diameter of an ellipse, which bisects the major axis at a right angle)
Noun
petit-gris
a Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris), which in colder areas (i.e. Russia whence fur has been imported) has more gray or white fur (and therefore has also been called Sciurus cinereus); a gray squirrel (Sciurus griseus); a Siberian chipmunk (Tamias sibiricus); fur of any such animal; a paintbrush from such a fur; a garden snail (Cornu aspersum, syn. Helix aspersa); a grey knight or dirty tricholoma, a mushroom of species Tricholoma terreum (syn. Tricholoma myomyces); a certain cultivar of melon; a gray feather obtained from a female ostrich under her venter
Noun
petit-noir
black feather obtained from a male ostrich (which has been used for the panache of a bonnet)
Noun
petite main
trainee seamstress, assistant seamstress, low-rank seamstress; low-paid worker, worker employed to do menial jobs, dogsbody
Noun