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English
Etymology
From Middle English castelet, from Old French castelet, northern form of chastelet. Equivalent to castle + -let.
Noun
castlelet (plural castlelets)
- Uncommon spelling of castlet.
1666, Peter Heylyn, “Of Germany”, in Cosmographie in four bookes containing the chorographie and hiſtorie of the world, and all the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas, and Iſles thereof, page 417:In a ſmall Iland of which not far from this Town, is a Tower,or Caſtlelet, called the Mouſeturn, i. e. the Tower of Mice : built by one of Hatto ( or Hanne ) Archbiſhop of Mentz, An. 900, or there abouts,
1776, John Philipot, “Etymology”, in Villare Cantianum; or, Kent surveyed and illustrated, page 399:Stockbery, that is, the woody bery, or fortreſs in the woody place; for here was a Caſtlelet of the Criols heretofore.
1841, William Henry Leatham, “Leatham's Poems”, in James Orchard Halliwell, editor, The Archaeologist, and Journal of Antiquarian Science, John Russell Smith, page 68:“ […] For there uprose, with turrets tall, / With circling moat, and massive wall, / The castlelet of Sammerhall.”’