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/lˈiflət/ Listen

noun

Leaflet n.

A little leaf.

(Bot.) One of the divisions of a compound leaf; a foliole.

(Zool.) A leaflike organ or part; as, a leaflet of the gills of fishes.

A printed sheet of paper, of one page, or one sheet folded over, containing an advertisement, tract, or other notice, and usually distributed for free or included in the package with a purchased item.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Leaflet" Quotes from Famous Books

... resound; Mist-wreaths the valley shroud; yet from the skies Sinks heaven's clear radiance to the depths profound; And bough and branch from dewy chasms rise, Where they had drooped erewhile in slumber furled; Earth is enamelled with unnumber'd dyes, Leaflet and flower with dew-drops are impearled; Around me everywhere ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke

... mean her? Was there glory for her anywhere in the world? She sighed with the joy of the possibility, as the "Glory Song" rolled along, led by the enthusiasm of one who had recently come from a big city where it had been sung in a great revival service. Some kind friend had given some copies of a leaflet containing it and a few other new songs to this little handful of Christians, and they were singing them as if they had been a ...

— The Girl from Montana • Grace Livingston Hill

... hold in scorn the child who dares Look up to Thee, the Father,—dares to ask More than Thy wisdom answers. From Thy hand The worlds were cast; yet every leaflet claims From that same hand its little shining sphere Of star-lit dew; thine image, the great sun, Girt with his ...

— The Poet at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... stranger took a stolen look At the sky, so soft and blue; And a leaflet green, with its silver sheen, Was seen ...

— Journeys Through Bookland V2 • Charles H. Sylvester

... too, from graveyards lonely, From mocking revels held 'mid tombstones tall, Tearing the withered leaves from off the branches, The clinging ivy from the time-stained wall,— Uprooting, blighting every tiny leaflet That hid the grave's bleak nakedness from sight, Driving the leaves in hideous, death like dances, Around the lowly ...

— The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon (Mrs. R.E. Mullins) • Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon

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