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Lappet   Listen
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Lappet  n.  A small decorative fold or flap, esp. of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress.
Lappet moth (Zool.), 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.






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"Lappet" Quotes from Famous Books



... new red bricks. The only hair upon their persons is a small tuft upon the crown of the head, in which they stick one or more feathers. The women are generally free from hair, their heads being shaved. They wear a neat little lappet, about six inches long, of beads, or of small iron rings, worked like a coat of mail, in lieu of a fig-leaf, and the usual tail of fine shreds of leather or twine, spun from indigenous cotton, pendant behind. Both the lappet and tail are fastened on a belt which is worn round the ...
— The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile • Sir Samuel White Baker

... surrender values are rising enormously. You are a wonderful man! How you have scented it all! Let me go back to make millions! Your money is all invested for a rise. To-day we shall take lunch at Tortoni's at twelve o'clock sharp. I shall bring you home eight millions. Let me go, or I shall leave the lappet of ...
— Dr. Dumany's Wife • Mr Jkai

... siege had been undertaken solely by the authority of Hannibal, to require that he should be delivered up to the Romans.(721) The deputies perceiving that the senate gave no direct answer to their demands, one of them taking up the folded lappet of his robe, "I bring here," says he, in a haughty tone, "either peace or war; the choice is left to yourselves." The senate answering, that they left the choice to him: "I give you war then," says he, unfolding his robe. "And we," replied the Carthaginians, ...
— The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, • Charles Rollin

... had taken a moment to think of it. Because when she plumped, like a child, into his arms, how came his arms to be so wide open? and when two great tears rolled down her cheeks, how sprang his handkerchief so impromptu out from beneath his braided lappet? ...
— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore

... and shedding tears, and turning my head towards my sides; letting him know, as well as I could, how cruelly I was hurt by the pressure of his thumb and finger. 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 ...
— Gulliver's Travels - Into Several Remote Regions of the World • Jonathan Swift

... aflame, as he jumped like the fish, flourished the big hook round his head, and gaffed Quin by the lappet of ...
— The Eagle Cliff • R.M. Ballantyne

... Indian story becomes a 'wishing cow', and thus reminds us of the bull in one of these Norse Tales, out of whose ear came a 'wishing cloth'; of the lucky child, who finds a purse of gold under his pillow every morning; and of the red lappet sown on the sleeping lover, as on Siegfried in the Nibelungen. The devices of Upakosa, the faithful wife, remind us at once of 'the Master-maid', and the whole of the stories of Saktideva and the Golden City, and of Viduschaka, King Adityasena's daughter, ...
— Popular Tales from the Norse • Sir George Webbe Dasent

... pale, gaunt fellow, with long hair, unshaven face, hollow cheeks, and dark eyes, set deeply in his head and shaded by thick, black brows. His dress consisted of a rough doublet, with lappet sleeves, carried down to a point, tight leggings, broad shoes and the puffed upper hose; the entire raiment frayed and worn; his flesh, or, rather, his bones, showing through the scanty covering for his legs, while his feet were no better protected than those of ...
— Under the Rose • Frederic Stewart Isham



Words linked to "Lappet" :   lasiocampid moth, caruncle, lappet moth, lappet caterpillar, wattle



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