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Meanings of tippet in English

Spanish
palatina
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Scarflike cape of fur or cloth which fasten around the neck and hang down in front; worn over vestments by clergy and as fashionable wraps in the 18th century.

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        Usage of tippet in English
        1
        She had huddled a soft sable tippet about her throat and shoulders.
        The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
        2
        What in heaven's name was a fox-fur tippet doing in the farmyard?
        Nanny mcphee and the big bang
        3
        She flung open the window and tossed out the mangy tippet.
        The Copy-Cat, and Other Stories
        4
        The breath under her little lace tippet rose and fell with furious haste.
        The History of David Grieve
        5
        But it was such a teeny-weeny tippet that it must be a child's.
        Nanny mcphee and the big bang
        6
        So saying, she stripped off the white frock, hat, and tippet.
        Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) / Classic Tales and Old-F...
        7
        She has on a small flat hat, and a tippet over her shoulders.
        Rembrandt and His Works / Comprising a Short Account of His Life...
        8
        He ran forward and found his brother's old gun and tippet.
        Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp; Or, Lost in the Backwoods
        9
        Perhaps I meant Mary's own time and pains, as well as the tippet.
        The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations
        10
        To-day I promenaded in the gallery with wadded dress and muff and tippet on.
        Memories of Hawthorne
        11
        The tippet is the most elegant article of Indian dress we have ever seen.
        History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis an...
        12
        The golden tippet, as I wear it, curves and shimmers.
        Chantecler: Play in Four Acts
        13
        No pilgrim returning from Santiago de Compostella ever slung handsomer tippet from his shoulders.
        The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters o...
        14
        Did you put your tippet round me in that wood?
        A Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-Day
        15
        Oh, goodness! Sally held up an old-fashioned fitch fur tippet.
        The Copy-Cat, and Other Stories
        16
        The scarf is sent from the torrid zone, and the tippet from beneath the pole.
        A Book of English Prose / Part II, Arranged for Secondary and Hi...
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        Translations for tippet
        Spanish
        palatina
        Tippet through the time
        Tippet across language varieties
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