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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Examples
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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This time he might return, immaculate, from the path of that "lambent flamelet." ...
Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne
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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
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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
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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
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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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