[f. as prec. + -LET.] A tiny or diminutive town.
a. 1552. Leland, Itin., V. 94. Oglesfeld and Bradfeld, ij townelettes or villages, long to one paroche chirche.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., II. 32. The coasts are well bespred with prety townlets.
1658. Phillips, Paston, a Townlet in Northfolk, giving sirname and residence to an honourable family of this County.
1807. Southey, Espriella’s Lett., II. 244. One of those townlets in which every thing reminds us of the distance from a metropolis.
1890. Times, 14 Oct., 4/1. [In Russia] Many townlets are changed by virtue of a local order into villages, and Jews resident in them are expelled.
