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- noun Plural form of
rillet .
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Examples
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IRENE goes up to the wall of rock, and lets the rillets of the cascade flow over her hands, cooling them.
When We Dead Awaken 2008
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IRENE goes up to the wall of rock, and lets the rillets of the cascade flow over her hands, cooling them.
When We Dead Awaken 2008
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In the cassoulet I suspect I want that fat to render during cooking, but for rillets perhaps I don't.
Lamb Sausage 2007
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In the cassoulet I suspect I want that fat to render during cooking, but for rillets perhaps I don't.
Duck Confit 2007
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Bhagadatta, rushed towards Bhimasena, on his elephant of rent temples and with juice trickling down in seven currents and resembling (on that account) a mountain with (as many) rillets flowing down its breast after a shower.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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And pierced by them (in return) and bathed in blood, he shone like a hill with rillets of water mixed with red-chalk
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Other huge elephants were seen striking against one another and shedding blood from various limbs like mountains with rillets running down their breasts.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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It is like a sheep-dog, always running backwards and forwards, poking into the most out-of-the-way corners, now climbing at a run some steep hummock of the down, and now leisurely going miles about to escape an ant-hill; and all the time (here, by the way, ends the sheep-dog) it is stopping to gossip with rillets vagabond as itself, or loitering to bedeck itself with flowers.
Quest of the Golden Girl, a Romance Richard Le Gallienne 1906
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The river was settling decorously into its bed, and in the sunlight the drenched shores shone under a tracery of pools and rillets as though a silvery gauze had been rudely torn back from them, catching and tearing here and there.
The Emigrant Trail Geraldine Bonner 1900
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It is like a sheep-dog, always running backwards and forwards, poking into the most out-of-the-way corners, now climbing at a run some steep hummock of the down, and now leisurely going miles about to escape an ant-hill; and all the time (here, by the way, ends the sheep-dog) it is stopping to gossip with rillets vagabond as itself, or loitering to bedeck itself with flowers.
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