rillet

[ ril-it ]

noun

1. a little rill; streamlet.

rillet

/ ˈrɪlɪt /

noun

1. a little rill

Word History and Origins

Origin of rillet¹

First recorded in 1530–40; rill ¹ + -et

Example Sentences

Cocktails from about $13 and French bistro-inspired snacks like cheese plates, rillet and foie gras from about $12.

From Washington Post

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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?

From Project Gutenberg