Meaning of little finger nail | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [C1]

Examples

“The feminine adornments are partly primitive, partly decadent and, considering the tools with which they were executed, represent tremendous labor. One is made entirely of tiny frogs carved from stones no bigger than a man’s little finger nail.”

“One morning, however, I arrived to find the still damp sand bordered by a creamy yellow edge of what appeared to be dried foam. It turned out to be nothing so mundane. Instead, it was composed of hundreds of thousands of tiny shells of all colours and types, most of them half the size of my little finger nail and so delicate as to be translucent.”

“Usually when you explain the size of them as well, that they’re only 4-5mm, smaller than your little finger nail, the fear seems to subside a little bit with them.”

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