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pufflet en · NOUN

Etymology

From puff + -let.

Meanings

1. Something small and puffy.
   • a cheese pufflet; a pufflet of smoke
   • That scarce discernible pufflet of smoke and dust is a revolution. 1890, James Russell Lowell, The Writings of James Russell Lowell: Poems, page 104:
   • Repeat with the remaining squares and line the pufflets up on the baking sheets, spacing them about 1/2 inch apart. 2006, Dorie Greenspan, Baking: From My Home to Yours, page 149:
   • The sky was a turquoise blue with only pufflets of cloud; the sun lay on my neck and arms; far out, a flat sea shimmered like a blue cloth. 2014, Rachel Joyce, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, page 238:

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