rillet

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Etymology

From rill (brook, rivulet, small stream) + either -et or -let.

Pronunciation

Noun

rillet (plural rillets)

  1. A little rill.
    • 1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “Recollections of the Arabian Nights”, in Poems. , volume I, London: Edward Moxon, , published 1842, →OCLC, part V, page 25:
      From the green rivage many a fall / Of diamond rillets musical, []
    • 1953, Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation (1971 Panther Books publication), part II: “Search by the Foundation”, chapter 8: ‘Seldon’s Plan’, page 86, ¶ 1
      First, a pearly white, unrelieved, then a trace of faint darkness here and there, and finally, the fine neatly printed equations in black, with an occasional red hairline that wavered through the darker forest like a staggering rillet.

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