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rubelet

rubelet noun: a little ruby.

Noun

rubelet (plural rubelets)

  1. (nonce-word, obsolete) A little ruby.
    • About the Cover of this Book there vvent / A curious-comely clean Compartlement: / And, in the midſt, to grace it more, vvas ſet / A bluſhing-pretty-peeping Rubelet: […]1648, Robert Herrick, “To His Closet-Gods”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC...

Forms of rubelet

pluralrubelets

Origin of rubelet

From ruby + -let.

Questions about rubelet

What does rubelet mean?
Rubelet means a little ruby.
What part of speech is rubelet?
Rubelet is a noun.
What is the plural of rubelet?
The plural of rubelet is rubelets.

Words near rubelet in the dictionary

  1. rubefies
  2. rubefy
  3. rubefying
  4. rubegoldbergian
  5. rubel
  6. rubelet
  7. rubelets
  8. rubelike
  9. rubella
  10. rubellalike
  11. rubellite

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