"roadlet" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From road + -let.",
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        {
          "ref": "1871 August 31, Annie Beale, “Katto and Her Coal-cart: A South Wales Sketch”, in Temple Bar, volume 33, page 74",
          "text": "The hedgerows of this roadlet were adorned in all seasons but winter with luxuriant wild flowers. Its especial pride were its roses and foxgloves.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1899 [1870], George Alfred Townsend, “South Mountain”, in Poems of Men and Events, Gapland edition, E. F. Bonaventure, page 147",
          "text": "Cooler yet where bursts a rill / In the roadlet down the height, / Like a naked beam of light, / Or a mountain bather naked, / Chilled by tourists overtaked.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "1937, G. D. H. Cole, Margaret Cole, “Dead Man's Watch”, in The Fourth Crime Club Omnibus, W. Collins Sons & Co Ltd, Police! (section I), page 9",
          "text": "Only at the very highest point does the village faintly assert its identity, where a roadlet of very second-class character, coming hesitantly up from the creek below, slides into the main road round the corner of a church, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1939, Robert Lock Graham Irving, “Central Alps” (chapter VI), in The Alps, B. T. Batsford, page 104",
          "text": "Very careful driving and fairly dry weather are needed if you take your car to the end of the roadlet that ascends beyond the village of Saviore on the way to the Rifugio Salarno below the highest peak of the Adamello; […]",
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        {
          "ref": "1945, Miguel Ángel Asturias, translated by H. R. Hays, edited by Charles Henri Ford, A Night With Jupiter, and Other Fantastic Stories, View Editions, page 13",
          "text": "\"Little road, little roadlet,\" a white dove said to the White Road but the White Road did not hear.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A small road."
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        "(uncommon) A small road."
      ],
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  "word": "roadlet"
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          "ref": "1871 August 31, Annie Beale, “Katto and Her Coal-cart: A South Wales Sketch”, in Temple Bar, volume 33, page 74",
          "text": "The hedgerows of this roadlet were adorned in all seasons but winter with luxuriant wild flowers. Its especial pride were its roses and foxgloves.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1899 [1870], George Alfred Townsend, “South Mountain”, in Poems of Men and Events, Gapland edition, E. F. Bonaventure, page 147",
          "text": "Cooler yet where bursts a rill / In the roadlet down the height, / Like a naked beam of light, / Or a mountain bather naked, / Chilled by tourists overtaked.",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "1939, Robert Lock Graham Irving, “Central Alps” (chapter VI), in The Alps, B. T. Batsford, page 104",
          "text": "Very careful driving and fairly dry weather are needed if you take your car to the end of the roadlet that ascends beyond the village of Saviore on the way to the Rifugio Salarno below the highest peak of the Adamello; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "text": "\"Little road, little roadlet,\" a white dove said to the White Road but the White Road did not hear.",
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        "A small road."
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