What is "townlets"

Usage examples of "townlets".

But they built themselves houses, and they supplied the Dutch East India Company with food and water, gradually budding off little townlets, Wynberg, Stellenbosch, and pushing their settlements up the long slopes which lead to that great central plateau which extends for fifteen hundred miles from the edge of the Karoo to the Valley of the Zambesi.

Out-Country on foot, jumping aboard little townlets in the hope it would be London that scoffed them.

Apart from the operations of De Wet there appeared to be no large force in the field in the Orange River Colony, but early in October of 1900 a small but very mobile and efficient Boer force skirted the eastern outposts of the British, struck the southern line of communications, and then came up the western flank, attacking, where an attack was possible, each of the isolated and weakly garrisoned townlets to which it came, and recruiting its strength from a district which had been hardly touched by the ravages of war, and which by its prosperity alone might have proved the amenity of British military rule.

Alleyne could not but mark that, whereas in Guienne there had been many townlets and few castles, there were now many castles and few houses.

In character it resembles one of those western American townlets which possess small present assets but immense aspirations.