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Dribblet

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Drib´blet
n.1.A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets.
When made up in dribblets, as they could, their best securities were at an interest of twelve per cent.
- Burke.
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As the fact pieces became supersized at The New Yorker, its fiction followed the lead of the casuals and migrated in the opposite direction, dieting on eyedropper dribblets of pale scenery and sparse dialogue as the minimalism of Ann Beattie, Mary Robison, Susan Minot, and other maidens of sorrow helped define a decade's slacker pose.
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