leavelet

Noun

leavelet (plural leavelets)

1. A part of a plant.
   • Go to a garden—go, and see, / Some rose-branch blushing on the tree; / And from that branch a rose-flower tear, / Then place it on thy bosom bare; / And as its leavelets fade and pine, / So fades my sinking heart in thine.1824, William Hone, The Every-Day Book: and Table Book, volume III, London: William Tegg and Co., […], page 535
   • This tree, which flowers, according to Jacquer, in July, is represented by him as one of great beauty, attaining a height of 40 feet, with a trunk of six feet, divided above that into numerous branches, finished with abundance of shining opposite pinnate (or winged) leaves, consisting of 6 or 7...1832, Robert Brindley, A Compendium of Naval Architecture, Arranged in Questions and Answers, […], Devonport: G. W. Hearle, […]; London: Sherwood, Gilbert, & Piper, pages 58–59
2. A small sheet of paper.
   • Our industries took leave; the Cobden Club published leavelets.(Can we date this quote?), Moonshine: The Best Tropical Comic Paper, page 313
   • And hope from my heart you won’t be called on to bear a quarter of what we did in the year following the collapse of France, etc. I can hardly think it possible, with your great distances, though you may come in for some sporadic raids. Or showers of leavelets, urging you to become Japanese! Oh...1942 February 13, Henry Handel Richardson [pseudonym; Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson], edited by Clive Probyn, Bruce Steele, and Rachel Solomon, Henry Handel Richardson: The Letters, volume 3...