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rillet

[ ril-it ]

noun

  1. a little rill; streamlet.


rillet

/ ˈ°ùɪ±ôɪ³Ù /

noun

  1. a little rill
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of rillet1

First recorded in 1530–40; rill 1 + -et
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Cocktails from about $13 and French bistro-inspired snacks like cheese plates, rillet and foie gras from about $12.

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The village, I remember, was dark and lifeless save just at one house, whence came a murmur of voices, and a red beam of light slipped through a chink in the shutter and lay like a rillet of blood across the snow.

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I was rather apt to underrate the size and danger of these, until one day a fragment, which seemed in comparison no greater than a pea, broke away from one of these bosses and dropped on to the slope beneath, starting, as it were, a little rillet of snow down the hillside.

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She cared not to join in her sisters' gambols, as each brought their tribute to their august parents—she was pining away for love, and only lived when in Albert's domain; elsewhere she dwindled away till her fond mother feared she would lose all her beauty and animation, and become a mere rillet.

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Over the fields of millet A young bird tries its wings; And sweet as a woodland rillet, Its first wild music rings— Soul of my soul, where the meadows roll What is the song it sings?

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