[f. TUFT sb. + -LET.] A little tuft.
1887. American Israelite, 25 Feb., 8/2. The aforesaid House of God has no tower whatever, at most only a small, pointed chimney, which looks as small as the familiar tuftlet of hair to be seen in all comic-papers on the bald head of a Bismarck.
1892. J. Mather, Poems, 129. Tuftlets brown Of rush and bracken.