[f. as prec. + -LET.] A small flame.
1849. Longf., By the Fireside, King Witlaf’s Drinking-Horn, viii.
| And the Yule-log cracked in the chimney, | |
| And the abbot bowed his head, | |
| And the flamelets flapped and flickered, | |
| But the abbot was stark and dead. |
1871. B. Taylor, Faust (1875), II. IV. ii. 251.
| Upon our phalanx’ shining lances | |
| A nimble host of flamelets dances: | |
| Too spectral it appears to me. |
