"lappet" meaning in English

See lappet in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-lappet.wav Forms: lappets [plural]
Rhymes: -æpɪt Etymology: From lap + -et. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|lap|et}} lap + -et Head templates: {{en-noun}} lappet (plural lappets)
  1. A small decorative fold or flap, especially of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress. Translations (small decorative fold or flap): ذُؤَابَة (ḏuʔāba) [feminine] (Arabic), дипла (dipla) [feminine] (Bulgarian), basko (Esperanto), laskos (english: fold) (Finnish), nauha (english: ribbon) (Finnish), lappu (flap) (Finnish), bout [masculine] (French), Zipfel [masculine] (German), llabed [feminine, masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-lappet-en-noun-PkQFpRfV Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -et, Terms with Arabic translations Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -et: 11 26 26 11 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 11 26 27 12 25 Disambiguation of 'small decorative fold or flap': 97 1 2 1
  2. (zoology) A wattle or flap-like structure on the face. Categories (topical): Zoology Translations (zoology: wattle or flap-like structure on the face): heltta (wattle) (Finnish), Hautlappen [masculine, plural, singular] (German)
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  3. A head-dress made with lappets for lace pendants.
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  4. (obsolete, anatomy) A lobe (division of an organ). Tags: obsolete Categories (topical): Anatomy
    Sense id: en-lappet-en-noun-~g-QOJ5c Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -et, Terms with Arabic translations Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -et: 11 26 26 11 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 11 26 27 12 25 Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: lappet-faced vulture, lappet moth

Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-lappet.wav Forms: lappets [present, singular, third-person], lappeting [participle, present], lappeted [participle, past], lappeted [past]
Rhymes: -æpɪt Etymology: From lap + -et. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|lap|et}} lap + -et Head templates: {{en-verb}} lappet (third-person singular simple present lappets, present participle lappeting, simple past and past participle lappeted)
  1. (transitive) To decorate with, or as if with, lappets. Tags: transitive
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Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXIX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 192:",
          "text": "Her rich, becoming dress fitted her perfect shape most admirably, and Fanchette had never arranged her coiffure to more advantage; the rich lappet of blonde, carelessly tied under the chin, hid all the \"defeatures time had made,\" without hiding the long white throat, for which she had always been remarkable, and was a beauty which had descended to all her daughters, even to the stigmatized Isabella.",
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          "ref": "2012, Hilary Mantel, chapter 2, in Bring Up the Bodies, New York: Henry Holt, page 86:",
          "text": "She raises her face to the light. ‘How do you think I look? What will you say of me when the king asks you? I have not seen myself in a mirror these many months.’ She pats her fur cap, pulls its lappets over her ears; laughs.",
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