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islet [ˈaɪlɪt] n
(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) a small island [from Old French islette; see isle] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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| After leaving behind him the civic Tournelle* and the criminal tower, and skirted the great walls of the king's garden, on that unpaved strand where the mud reached to his ankles, he reached the western point of the city, and considered for some time the islet of the Passeur-aux-Vaches, which has disappeared beneath the bronze horse of the Pont Neuf. The scaffold indeed looked like an islet at the confluence of several rivers. At the point of that angle a short arm joined it to a hexagonal islet with a soil of gravel and its shores faced with dressed stone, a perfection of puerile neatness. |
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islet - a small island