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lappet |
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lappet Zoology a lobelike hanging structure, such as the wattle on a bird's head lappet [′lap·ət] (textiles) An attachment for a loom, used to insert floating warp threads into a fabric. A lightweight patterned fabric such as dotted swiss made with such an attachment. (zoology) A lobe or flaplike projection, such as on the margin of a jellyfish or the wattle of a bird. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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. 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. So Brydon, before him, took him in; with every fact of him now, in the higher light, hard and acute - his planted stillness, his vivid truth, his grizzled bent head and white masking hands, his queer actuality of evening-dress, of dangling double eye-glass, of gleaming silk lappet and white linen, of pearl button and gold watch-guard and polished shoe. |
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