townlet, townlette

[Eng. town; dim. suff.let.] A small town. "The poor schoolmaster of a provincial townlet ." Southey: Doctor, ch. exviii. Town-ley, s. [Prop. name.] (See compound.) Townley-marbles, s. pl . A collection of Greek and Roman sculpture, forming a portion of the gallery of antiquities in the British Museum, and so named after Charles Townley, Esq., of Townley, Lancashire, by whom the collection was made. *town-scape, s. [Formed from town , on analogy of landscape (q. v.).] A view of a town. "It is a landscape, or rather a townscape." -Lord R. Gower: Figure Painters of Holland , p. 66.