Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small square or diamond-shaped piece; a small lozenge.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A little quarrel. See 1st
quarrel , 2.
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whichbe commented on the word quarrelet
A little quarrel.
July 6, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word quarrelet
Some ask'd how pearls did grow, and where?
Then spoke I to my girl,
To part her lips, and shew'd them there
The quarelets of pearl.
- Robert Herrick (1591-1674); Hesperides. A Country Life. The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarry of Pearls.
August 25, 2014