townlet
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of townlet
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From his balcony at night, he watches the twinkling lights of the nearby townlet and, sitting above it like a judge, the dark outline of a monastery.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 12, 2017
Esteemed and popular in Gibeon, bustling Anglo-Dutch townlet of South Africa, was Arnold Duerden, sportsman, clubman.
From Time Magazine Archive
Equally curious was it to find that the gathering of "commercials" was not an unusual occurrence, but that the queer townlet was a genuine centre of business activity.
From Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Bernard H. Becker
But he soon escaped to Austria, and settled in 1841 in the Bukovina, in the townlet of Sadagora, near Chernovitz, where he established his new "court."
From History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) by I. Friedlaender
They have metamorphosed a miserable mid-German townlet into a city of palaces.
From The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume I (of II) by Andrew Steinmetz
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