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riv·u·let  audio  (rvy-lt) KEY 

NOUN:
A small brook or stream; a streamlet.
ETYMOLOGY:
Possibly from Italian rivoletto, diminutive of rivolo, small stream, from Latin rvulus, diminutive of rvus, stream; see rei- in Indo-European roots


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