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Pigmy

[ pig-mee ]

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noun

, plural Pig·mies,

Pigmy

/ ˈpɪɡmɪ /

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Children, in brilliant night robes, run to the verandas to see the early sun; cocks strut in pigmy gardens.

Sunshine fell thick upon the garden, and warmed even the lazy gold-fish in their pigmy lake.

Cortes on his lonely peak in Darien was a pigmy discoverer beside the child eating his first spoonful of ice-cream.

The diners looked out on the pigmy furnace smokestacks punctuating the dun smoke-mist.

The height was prodigious; the crowds walking about below were of pigmy size.

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