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lappet
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tags: [fashion]
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Definition:1. a decorative flap on a garmet2. a flaplike structure on an animal, such as a bird's wattle
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He seemed to apprehend my meaning; for, lifting up the lappet of his coat, he put me gently into it, and immediately ran along with me to his master, who was a substantial farmer, and the same person I had first seen in the field.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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He is paralytic and blind, with a pinched white face framed in an old-fashioned fur cap with big ear lappets; he seems to be preaching or reading, and Rolleston stops idly enough to listen for a few moments,
F. Anstey. The Talking Horse And Other Tales (1892)
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he watched the sunlight sinking into the down on her fair cheek, half hidden by the lappets of her night-cap.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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