Also -ette. [f. TEMPLE sb.1 + -ET.] A small or miniature temple.
a. 1843. in Southey, Comm.-pl. Bk., III. 657/1. Fagutal, a beechen temple or templet under Jupiter Fagutalis.
1848. J. G. Wilkinson, Dalmatia, etc., I. 183. A little round templet, or open lantern on columns, in style and name worthy of a tea-garden.
1892. Harper’s Mag., Aug., 355/1. This temple—it is so small that they might call it a templette.
