[f. BAND sb.2 + -LET; or syncopated from BANDELET.] A small band, fillet or streak: in Arch. = BANDELET.

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1727–51.  in Chambers, Cycl.

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1850.  Mrs. Jameson, Leg. Monast. Ord. (1863), 110. Two bars or bandlets gules.

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1883.  Piazzi Smyth, in Observat., No. 83. 81. The bandlets of lines in this mysterious α band.

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1883.  Birch, Assyr. Antiq., 50. His hair is covered with a broad bandlet.

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