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Lappet definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LAP'PET, n. [dim. of lap.] A part of a garment or dress that hangs loose.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards [syn: wattle, lappet]
2: a small lap on a garment or headdress
3: medium-sized hairy moths; larvae are lappet caterpillars [syn: lappet, lappet moth]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1573 1. a fold or flap on a garment or headdress 2. a flat overlapping or hanging piece

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a small flap or fold of a garment etc. 2 a hanging or loose piece of flesh, such as a lobe or wattle. Derivatives: lappeted adj. Etymology: LAP(1) + -ET(1)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lappet Lap"pet, n. [Dim. of lap a fold.] A small decorative fold or flap, esp, of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress. --Swift. Lappet moth (Zo["o]l.), one of several species of bombycid moths, which have stout, hairy caterpillars, flat beneath. Two common American species (Gastropacha Americana, and Tolype velleda) feed upon the apple tree.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lappet Lap"pet, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lappeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Lappeting.] To decorate with, or as with, a lappet. [R.] --Landor.

Moby Thesaurus

crease, creasing, crimp, dog-ear, double, doubling, drape, duplicature, ear lobe, flection, flexure, flounce, fold, frill, gather, hanger, hanging, lapel, lobation, lobe, lobule, pendant, plica, plication, plicature, ply, ruche, ruching, ruffle, tuck, uvula