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lap·pet

(lăp′ĭt)

1. A decorative flap or loose fold on a garment or headdress.

2. A flaplike structure, such as the wattle of a bird or the lobe of the ear.

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lappet

(ˈlæpɪt)

1. (Clothing & Fashion) a small hanging flap or piece of lace, etc, such as one dangling from a headdress

2. (Zoology) zoology a lobelike hanging structure, such as the wattle on a bird's head

[C16: from lap¹ + -et]

ˈlappeted adj

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lap•pet

(ˈlæp ɪt)

n.

1. a small lap, flap, or loosely hanging part, esp. of a garment or headdress. See illus. at miter.

2. a wattle or other fleshy process on a bird's head.

[1565–75; lap¹ + -et]

lap′pet•ed, adj.

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Noun	1.	lappet - a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards wattle caruncle, caruncula - an outgrowth on a plant or animal such as a fowl's wattle or a protuberance near the hilum of certain seeds
	2.	lappet - a small lap on a garment or headdress overlap, lap - a flap that lies over another part; "the lap of the shingles should be at least ten inches"
	3.	lappet - medium-sized hairy moths; larvae are lappet caterpillars lappet moth lasiocampid, lasiocampid moth - medium-sized stout-bodied neutral-colored moths with comb-like antennae

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Another thing I had almost forgotten, which is that the lappets of the fur cloak must be raised, and the collar bound with lace.

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The farmer having (as I suppose by their talk) received such an account of me as his servant could give him, took a piece of a small straw, about the size of a walking-staff, and therewith lifted up the lappets of my coat; which it seems he thought to be some kind of covering that nature had given me.

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.

Then she set me on a table, where I showed her my hanger all bloody, and wiping it on the lappet of my coat, returned it to the scabbard.

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This he buttoned tightly up, in spite of the extreme closeness of the night, and finished his attire by putting on a rabbit-skin cap with hanging lappets which covered the ears, so that no part of him was visible save his mobile and peaky face.

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The particulars of Becky's costume were in the newspapers--feathers, lappets, superb diamonds, and all the rest.

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Fairfax was summoned to give information respecting the resources of the house in shawls, dresses, draperies of any kind; and certain wardrobes of the third storey were ransacked, and their contents, in the shape of brocaded and hooped petticoats, satin sacques, black modes, lace lappets, &c., were brought down in armfuls by the abigails; then a selection was made, and such things as were chosen were carried to the boudoir within the drawing-room.

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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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Tissue samples were taken from the edges of the bell and lappets, and were embedded in paraffin and stained with hematoxylin and eosin as well as Masson's trichrome.

Chrysaora achlyos, a remarkable new species of scyphozoan from the Eastern Pacific

Narrow unpigmented submarginal stripe along length of fin, distally pale brown lappets and margin of soft portion.

A review of Dicrossus foirni and Dicrossus warzeli, two species of cichlid fishes from the Amazon River basin in Brazil (Teleostei: Cichlidae)

The colourful cock also has vivid scarlet-red facial skin, throat, two lappets and heavily dented fleshy crest (comb), and red or white ear patches on the sides of the head (Delacour, 1951; Animal Diversity Web, 2006; Wild Singapore, 2006).

Population Status and Distribution Pattern of Red Jungle Fowl (Gallus gallus murghi) in Deva Vatala National Park, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan: A Pioneer Study

He writes leniently: "Oklahoma fell silent, the Baltic froze/From Kafka's offices came glassy gentlemen/The narrowing lappets of your Irish coat closed around you/Your blue-eyed childlike festinator to the future, Ivar" (Talvet, Estonian Elegy 61).