Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A little flame.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A small flame.

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  • noun A small flame.

Etymologies

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flame +‎ -let

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Examples

  • As years ago the flamelet of the street-lamp, so now these outposts of the colossal embryo of a world derided me and seemed to point me out and away.

    The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

  • A white flamelet sparks from the unseen blackness that now enfolds her, a stubborn remnant of chaos triggered by anger.

    The Towers of the Sunset Modesitt, L. E. 1992

  • A banked fire sometimes let slip a flamelet, but what made soft dusk was the sky beyond the wickerwork door.

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

  • A banked fire sometimes let slip a flamelet, but what made soft dusk was the sky beyond the wickerwork door.

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1988

  • Meantime Mephistopheles is busy summoning his demons to keep watch over the dead body, lest the soul should escape like a mouse, or flicker up to heaven in a little flamelet.

    The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'

  • This time he might return, immaculate, from the path of that "lambent flamelet." ...

    Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne

  • Indeed their outline so much resembles the conventional flamelet-design of Buddhist decoration, that I cannot help thinking them originally intended to indicate the traditional luminosity of the footprints.

    In Ghostly Japan Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • He paused and brought the flamelet of his candle near to the compartments excavated on either hand of the passage.

    The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete ��mile Zola 1871

  • He paused and brought the flamelet of his candle near to the compartments excavated on either hand of the passage.

    The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871

  • He paused and brought the flamelet of his candle near to the compartments excavated on either hand of the passage.

    The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 2 ��mile Zola 1871

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