[f. CLOUD sb. + -LET, dim. suffix.] A little cloud.
1788. Coleridge, First Advent of Love, 2. Eve’s first star thro’ fleecy cloudlet peeping.
1850. Tennyson, In Mem., Conclus. xxiv. A shade falls on us like the dark From little cloudlets on the grass.
1872. Proctor, Ess. Astron., ii. 20. Multitudes of star-cloudlets scattered among the myriads of minute stars which produce the milky light of the Magellanic Clouds.
1885. Times, 10 April, 5/5. The war cloudlet vanished as quickly as it had risen.
