Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A little note.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A little or short note; a billet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A brief
letter ornote ; abillet . - noun UK A
notecard ; a small folded sheet ofnotepaper , often with a decorative design on the front, intended for a short letter ornote .
Etymologies
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Examples
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They cannot let oblivion have the lease "notelet" or "essaykin" of his.
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Give me the 'notelet'; I want to put it away securely among my treasures.
St. Elmo 1872
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I should have felt no doubt whose hand had put the notelet there even if it had failed to breathe the perfume of violets, which no one who knew
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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Just as I was writing, had written, that sentence yesterday, came the letter which contained your notelet.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning, Elizabeth B 1898
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There is a tiny notelet among his letters, with a newspaper paragraph neatly cut out and pasted across the top, detailing the names of his party at a previous appearance at a theatre, a kind of notoriety which he particularly shuddered at; but in order to prove his determination in spite of everything, he writes below: --
Authors and Friends Annie Fields 1874
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Give me the 'notelet;' I want to put it away securely among my treasures.
St. Elmo. A Novel. Augusta Jane 1867
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Garden like Richard Crouchback, but to get a book -- and there I carried my note, thinking to expedite its delivery: this notelet of yours, quite as little in its kind as my blue flowers, -- this came last evening -- and here are my thanks, dear E.B.B. -- dear friend.
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Robert Browning 1850
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Just as I was writing, had written, that sentence yesterday, came the letter which contained your notelet.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1833
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"Thanks so much for your miserable notelet," the letter began with Westminster-era humor.
The Shad Plank 2010
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"Thanks so much for your miserable notelet," the letter began with Westminster-era humor.
The Shad Plank 2010
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