Lilliput
an imaginary country inhabited by people about 6 inches (15 centimeters) tall, described in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
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How to use Lilliput in a sentence
Mara, of course, has that other-worldly star aura: remarkably perfect skin and a body from Lilliput.
CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Awards Honor the Next Big Designers | Robin Givhan | November 15, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTHe knew that around the center they contemptuously called him "Lilliput."
Warning from the Stars | Ron CockingFaithful to the promise of his great master, the youthful Cavalcadour called in Lilliput Street the next day.
A Little Dinner at Timmins's | William Makepeace ThackerayThen, the masked shrew—for so we humans have named this escape from Lilliput—flashed out into the open.
Wild Folk | Samuel ScovilleIt was a satire, of course—Gulliver's Lilliput outdone—a sort of scientific, socialistic, mathematical jamboree.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete | Albert Bigelow Paine
Arbuthnot says he "lent the book to an old gentleman, who went immediately to his map to search for Lilliput."
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) | Isaac D'Israeli
Cultural definitions for Lilliput
[ (lil-i-puht) ]
The first land that Lemuel Gulliver visits in Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift. The inhabitants, though human in form, are only six inches tall.
Notes for Lilliput
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