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Lappet   Listen
noun
Lappet  n.  A small decorative fold or flap, esp. of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress.
Lappet moth (Zool.), one of several species of bombycid moths, which have stout, hairy caterpillars, flat beneath. Two common American species (Gastropacha Americana, and Tolype velleda) feed upon the apple tree.



verb
Lappet  v. t.  (past & past part. lappeted; pres. part. lappeting)  To decorate with, or as with, a lappet. (R.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Lappet" Quotes from Famous Books



... unwomanly. A fine fur tunic, reaching but little below the knee, was all the skirt she wore; below were the cross-bound shoes and leggings that a hunter wears. A white fur cap was set low upon the brows, and from its edge strips of fur fell lappet-wise about her shoulders; two of these at her entrance had been drawn forward and crossed about her throat, but now, loosened and thrust back, left unhidden long plaits of fair hair that lay forward on shoulder and breast, down to the ivory-studded ...
— The Were-Wolf • Clemence Housman

... looks now, dressed In a sledging-cap and vest! 'Tis a huge fur cloak— Like a reindeer's zoke Falls the lappet along the breast: Sleeves for her arms to rest, Or to hang, as my ...
— Browning's Heroines • Ethel Colburn Mayne



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