miniatures

Noun

miniature (plural miniatures)

1. Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
2. A small version of something; a model of reduced scale.
   • There was a miniature of a whaling ship in a glass bottle over the mantelpiece.
3. A small, highly detailed painting, a portrait miniature.
   • The miniature was a picture of Leo's Greek mother - a lovely, dark-eyed creature.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
4. The art of painting such highly detailed miniature works.
5. An illustration in an illuminated manuscript.
6. A musical composition which is short in duration.
   • Sacha composed a miniature for strings as a final project at the conservatory.

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