rubelet

English

Etymology

From ruby +‎ -let.

Noun

rubelet (plural rubelets)

1. (nonce word, obsolete) A little ruby.
   • 1648, Robert Herrick, “To His Closet-Gods”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 267:

     About the Cover of this Book there vvent / A curious-comely clean Compartlement: / And, in the midſt, to grace it more, vvas ſet / A bluſhing-pretty-peeping Rubelet: […]

Further reading

• “rubelet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.