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lapel

[ UK /lɐpˈɛl/ ]
[ US /ɫəˈpɛɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. lap at the front of a coat; continuation of the coat collar

How To Use lapel In A Sentence

  • In that same period, the recalled lapel pins were distributed as promotions to employees at electronics and game stores around the country. Nintendo recalls 71,000 character pins that violate lead standard
  • From his lapel dangled, one above the other, three RNLI service medals. THE MAIN CAGES
  • They also wore button-down shirts and were sometimes with carnations in the lapels of their jackets.
  • There was a severe 40's suit that had the letters of the airline done in huge cutwork, it was the entire lapel on one side. Airship Hostesses - A Dress A Day
  • He tugged at his shirt cuffs, flicked lint from his lapels, and straightened his tie. NO BODY
  • Stepping back, she straightened the bow tie and brushed the lint off the lapels of his jacket.
  • He was a natty figure in a shiny suit with short lapels. Times, Sunday Times
  • The men wore velvet jackets that featured lapels like a fighter jet's wings. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's a little metal badge you wear on your lapel that tells the Secret Service that you're a goodie.
  • He wore a kind of paletôt of light camlet cloth, with voluminous lapels and deep cuffs of lavender watered silk; very baggy trousers, with lavender stripes down the seams; very shiny boots and quite as glossy a hat; his attire being completed by tightly-fitting gloves, of the hue known in Paris as beurre frais — that is to say, light yellow. Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
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