leavelet

plural leavelets

1. Rare form of leaflet.
   1. A part of a plant.

      Dead leaves/caught among the leavelets

      1865 June, Nature Study, Jamaica; quoted in Elaine Evans Dee, To Embrace the Universe: Drawings by Frederic Edwin Church, Yonkers, N.Y.: The Hudson River Museum, 1984, page 60

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      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 pair of oblong entire obtuse sessile alternate leavelets, without a terminal one, foot stalk of five inches in length; […]

      1832, Robert Brindley, A Compendium of Naval Architecture, Arranged in Questions and Answers, […], Devonport: G. W. Hearle, […]; London: Sherwood, Gilbert, & Piper, pages 58–59

      Time may my rich dark leavelets blanch, / They shall wither;—my cherishing sap shall fail— / Though now I am proud, and each stalwart branch / Scarce bendeth a twig to the blustering gale.

      1845, B. L., “A Cedar of England”, in The Haileybury Observer, volume III, London: W[illia]m H[oughton] Allen and Co., […]; Hertford, Herts: Stephen Austin, […], page 95

      The April showers have augmented into heavy rains, as if they had grown by what they fed on. They beat out, as with a mallet, the twigs into leavelets, & the buds into blossoms.

      1863 April 25, Charles King Newcomb, edited by Judith Kennedy Johnson, The Journals of Charles King Newcomb, Providence, R.I.: Brown University, published 1946, page 166

      The nodding foliage, where ye lately found / A couch aye yielding to your gentleness— / Whiles it did leap with joy to hear your song, / And waved responsive to its symphonies— / These will return as plenteously as erst: / The morning wear again its old delight; / The eve all readily its golden death / Embrace; again be heard the babbling stream / As sweeps it on its way rejoicing; / Again among the various leavelets / Play wantonly will ye; and then forgot / Will be your song, when sorrowing ceases.

      1864, Scribbo Scribo [pseudonym], “Ode”, in Not at Home, and Other Poems, Shepton Mallet: […] A. Byrt, […], page 65

   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

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      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 what fools these orientals be!

      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 (1934–1946), Carlton, Vic.: The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Press, published 2000, →ISBN, page 562

      We handle preparations of adverts, leavelets, newsletters, brochures, letterheads etc. from design and layouts, writing copy, typesetting and supplying proofs.

      1985, Financial Mail, numbers 1–4, page 166