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Lappet

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A small decorative fold or flap, especially of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress.

    "Oout of hiz boozom drawn foorth a lappet of his napkin, edged with a blu la[c]e, and marked with a trulooue, a hart & a D, for Damian: for he waz but a bachelar yet."

  2. 2
    medium-sized hairy moths; larvae are lappet caterpillars wordnet
  3. 3
    A wattle or flap-like structure on the face.

    "Some vultures have lappets of bare flesh on the sides of the head."

  4. 4
    a small lap on a garment or headdress wordnet
  5. 5
    A head-dress made with lappets for lace pendants.
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  1. 6
    a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards wordnet
  2. 7
    A lobe (division of an organ). obsolete

    "In the tender lappet of the eare is supposed to rest the seat of remembrance, which we vse to touch when we mean to take one to beare witnesse of an arrest or other thing done,"

Verb
  1. 1
    To decorate with, or as if with, lappets. transitive

    "I would fain merit your esteem, heedless of these pursy fellows from hulks and warehouses, with one ear lappetted by the pen behind it […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From lap + -et.

Etymology 2

From lap + -et.

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