streamlet
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈstɹiːmlət/
streamlet (plural streamlets)
- A small stream.
- 1637, Philemon Holland (translator), Britain by William Camden, London: George Latham, “Kent,” p. 330,
- Then the river Medway, branching it selfe into five streamlets, is joyned with as many stone Bridges […]
- 1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman & Rees, Volume 1, Preface, p. iii,
- […] the eye, after poring over the unbounded expanse of the ocean, is releaved and delighted by a streamlet and a dell.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 19:
- I wanted to jog in leisurely fashion through the green fields and chestnut avenues, over the rushing bubbling streamlets, to join Sylvie.
- 1637, Philemon Holland (translator), Britain by William Camden, London: George Latham, “Kent,” p. 330,
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