lappet
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.40 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A small decorative fold or flap, especially of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress.
noun
A head-dress made with lappets for lace pendants.
Example Sentences
- "Oout of hiz boozom drawn foorth a lappet of his napkin, edged with a blu la[c]e, and marked with a trulooue, a hart & a D, for Damian: for he waz but a bachelar yet."
- "[…] lifting up the Lappet of his Coat, he put me gently into it, and immediately ran along with me to his Master […]"
- "[…] he was presently undrest, all to his shirt, the fore-lappet of which, as he lean’d languishingly on me, he smilingly pointed to me, to observe, as it bellied out, or rose, and fell, according to the unruly starts of the motion behind it:"
- "He wears […] a white wig, the curls of which hang down like lappets over his shoulders, and form a good contrast with the plump, rosy, shining face beneath it."
- "Her rich, becoming dress fitted her perfect shape most admirably, and Fanchette had never arranged her coiffure to more advantage; the rich lappet of blonde, carelessly tied under the chin, hid all the "defeatures time had made," without hiding the long white throat, for which she had always been remarkable, and was a beauty which had descended to all her daughters, even to the stigmatized Isabella."
- "I have small breasts that lie flattened against the chest like lappets."
Etymology
From lap + -et.