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Vinony

rivulet

noun

  1. body of water with a current, confined within a bed and stream banks, smaller than creek, brook, beck, burn
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪv.jʊ.lɪt/ / /ˈɹɪv.jə.lət/

noun

Etymology: From Italian rivoletto, diminutive of rivolo (“trickle, little stream”), diminutive of rivo (“stream, brook, creek”), ultimately from Latin rīvulus, diminutive of rīvus. By surface analysis, Latin rīvus + -ule + -et.

  1. A small stream; a streamlet; a gill.

    “A rivulet of tears ran down his face.”

    “Yes Madam I think you will like them—when you shall see in a beautiful Quarto Page how a neat rivulet of Text shall meander thro' a meadow of margin—'fore Gad, they will be the most elegant Things of their kind—”

  2. Perizoma affinitatum, a geometrid moth.