A fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards.
Hanging part of a headdress or garment.
Medium-sized hairy moths; larvae are lappet caterpillars.
1 At last the tickets were found in the outer lappet of Elizabeth Eliza's hand-bag.
2 Fink took him confidentially by the lappet of his coat.
3 Let me go, or I shall leave the lappet of my coat in your hands.
4 Our badge was a red morocco star, worn under the left lappet of the vest.
5 This style of weave is known as lappet weave.
6 They came through the gateway; the lappet of his coat brushed her arm, and he never saw her.
7 The female has only the rudiments of a crest and lappet , and is of a much duller colour than the male.
8 More in front St. John is carrying two puppies in the lappet of his coat, and the dog is leaping up to him.
9 And she took the little dog in the lappet of her cap, and the head and the body of the stag lay before her.
10 He never asked who or what the sick papas of poor children were when the children pulled him by the lappet of his coat.
11 The day before, Rosanna had taken out a spot for me on the lappet of my coat, with a new composition, warranted to remove anything.
12 The head pad resembles a cap hanging in lappets on each side.
13 The ruffles and lappets and powder and hoop told of long ago.
14 The other had on a round fur cap with lappets for the ears.
15 She took me by one of the lappets of my coat.
16 On his head was a tight-fitting cap with lappets , also white.
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