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Definition of Devilets
1. devilet [n] - See also: devilet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Devilets
Literary usage of Devilets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1874)
"It is a thing to meditate over, to hear them in chapel of a morning like devilets
sudden!; broken loose, bandying obscene jokes as they thumb their ..."
2. Carolina Sports by William Elliot (1918)
"I have it! they are little devilets, dancing at a carnival! No! not that either!
for they are white, transparent, vapor-like—unlike the imps of darkness! ..."
3. The Recreations of Christopher North: Pseud. by John Wilson (1842)
"... specks and the wallflowers growing on the coign of vantage—the signal is given
to fire; but the devilets are too high in heaven to smell the sulphur. ..."
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