Modifies a noun

• poi: This year our biggest pea grower has trialed 27 new varieties of peas and petit pois.

• four: Dating New York style lasts no longer than a plate of petit fours.

• Mal: The best results to date have been seen in petit mal in children.

• bourgeoisie: During the last period the German petit bourgeoisie steamed like a kettle.

• bourgeois: The Trotskyist movement outside Russia was by and large not only very small and fragmented but also petit bourgeois.

• seizure: These seizures are sometimes referred to as petit mal seizures, which is an older term.