rivulet

Etymology

From Old French riveret (“little stream”) or from Italian rivoletto, from Italian rivo, from Latin rivus.

noun

  1. A small brook or stream; a streamlet; a gill.
    A rivulet of tears ran down his face.
    Yes Madam I think you will like them—when you shall see in a beautiful Quarto Page how a neat rivulet of Text shall meander thro' a meadow of margin—'fore Gad, they will be the most elegant Things of their kind 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, I.i
    Rills running down the steepest slopes develop into rivulets. 1945, Charles Cotton, Geomorphology: An Introduction to the Study of Landforms
  2. Perizoma affinitatum, a geometrid moth.

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