giftlet
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- A smallgift.
- Synonym:giftling
- 1976,Angela Carter, “My Father's House”, inShaking a Leg, Vintage, published2013, page19:
- There is […] a number of plastic dolls in blonde wigs and kilts brought back asgiftlets for my now deceased aunt by cronies who tripped off to other parts of Scotland for wee holidays.
- 2005, Catullus, translated by Peter Green,Poems, page139:
- Yet thegiftlets she offered the gods, the vows she pledged / with silent lips—these were not in vain, not unpleasing.
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