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rillet en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• rĭʹlĭt
• /ˈɹɪlɪt/

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. A little rill.
   • From the green rivage many a fall / Of diamond rillets musical, […] 1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “Recollections of the Arabian Nights”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, part V, page 25:
   • 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. 1953, Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation (1971 Panther Books publication), part II: “Search by the Foundation”, chapter 8: ‘Seldon’s Plan’, page 86, ¶ 1

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