Rivulet \ RIV-yuh-lut \ (noun) - A small stream or brook; a streamlet.
"After two minutes in the steam chamber, sweat began to flow in rivulets from every pore in my body, dripping steadily from my fingertips." -- Fen Montaigne, Reeling in Russia
Rivulet is from Italian rivoletto, diminutive of rivolo, from Latin rivulus, diminutive of rivus, "a brook, a stream."
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