See -ette on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1967, Barry Took, Marty Feldman, “Gaslight Son of Flicker”, in Round the Horne, spoken by Sandy (Kenneth Williams):",
"text": "You may have vada'd one of our tiny bijou masterpiecettes, heartface.",
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"ref": "2002, Gilda O'Neill, The Sins Of Their Fathers (Eastend Trilogy; 1):",
"text": "'Shame, eh, my little cherry? I was really bonar for him and all. It'll be a lonely old arthur for me tonight as usual. Ah well, let's have another little drinkette then, shall we? And perhaps, Poppett,' he sighed histrionically. 'I'll learn to keep my queeny old polari for them what appreciates it. Or for them what admints it,'",
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