pufflet
nounEtymology From puff + -let.
1
Something small and puffy.
- a cheese pufflet; a pufflet of smoke
- That scarce discernible pufflet of smoke and dust is a revolution.1890, James Russell Lowell, The Writings of James Russell Lowell: Poems, page 104:
2 more examples
- Repeat with the remaining squares and line the pufflets up on the baking sheets, spacing them about 1/2 inch apart.2006, Dorie Greenspan, Baking: From My Home to Yours, page 149:
- The sky was a turquoise blue with only pufflets of cloud; the sun lay on my neck and arms; far out, a flat sea shimmered like a blue cloth.2014, Rachel Joyce, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, page 238: