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English
Etymology
From ruby + -let.
Noun
rubelet (plural rubelets)
- (nonce word, obsolete) A little ruby.
1648, Robert Herrick, “To His Closet-Gods”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine , London: John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho Hunt, , →OCLC, page 267:About the Cover of this Book there vvent / A curious-comely clean Compartlement: / And, in the midſt, to grace it more, vvas ſet / A bluſhing-pretty-peeping Rubelet: […]
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