dwarfette

== English == === Etymology === From dwarf +‎ -ette. === Noun === dwarfette (plural dwarfettes) (dated) A human female with dwarfism. 1955, Tennessee Williams, letter dated 17 July 1955, printed in Five O'Clock Angel: Letters of Tennessee Williams to Maria St. Just, 1948-1982 (1990), page 121: I’ve just come from the bull-fight, a very good one, so tense at one point that I had to wash down a pinkie with a great gulp of Scotch in my little flask, am now half in and half out of the conscious world. It is pretty good here. All the little black dwarfettes are still scuttling about, and a few hunch-backs, and the gigolo with the great melting eyes and tiny mustache is paying flattering court, all but drinking champagne from my slipper. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:dwarfette. Synonym: dwarfess (informal, by extension) A woman of somewhat short stature, or one who seems small in relation to something larger. 2004, Vicente Leñero (trans. Lorna Scott Fox & Rubén Gallo), "La Diana", The Mexico City Reader (ed. Rubén Gallo), page 152: All this thanks to her [the statue's] towering stature: nine feet high, practically twice the average height of our national dwarfettes. (fantasy) A female of the dwarf race. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:dwarfette. Synonyms: dwarfess, dwarfmaid, dwarrowdam