Definition of "little-known" []

• Unknown to most people (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "What Mr. Sellars calls a "little-known fact"—that Desdemona was raised by a black African slave, which helped pave the way for her marriage to Othello—is simply not justified by Shakespeare's text."
• "It is a little-known fact that during the 1960s, an extraordinary number of white workers more often demonstrated a desire to leave the workplace than to take responsibility for it."
• "When Justice Brennan announced his resignation in June 1991, President George H. W. Bush nominated Souter, then a little-known federal court of appeals judge from New Hampshire."