A variant or specific type of carom billiards game, possibly a French variation of the carom pool rules.
French diminutive of 'carambole' (carom), adding the suffix '-ette' to indicate a smaller or specific variant of the game.
The existence of 'carombolette' shows how the Victorians loved creating tiny, specific rules variations—billiards alone had dozens of named games, and 'carombolette' was the refined 'upper-class' version!
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