[f. as prec. + -LET.] A little tower.
1821. Joanna Baillie, Beacon, II. i., in Plays, III. 294.
| Push bravely, Mates! Our guiding star | |
| Now from its towerlet streameth far. |
1838. Emerson, Jrnls. (1910), VI. 432–3. Lidian came into the study this afternoon and found the towerlet that Wallie had built, half an hour before, of two spools, a card, an awl-case and a flower-box top.
1905. M. F. & B. McM. Mansfield, Romantic Ireland, I. 115. In a way, a very considerable way, they resemble the minarets and turret towerlets of a Cairene or Damascene mosque.
