How To Use Lappet In A Sentence
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets, when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta, there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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Similar decorations are produced by lappet weaving, a method in which additional warp yarns are used to create small designs that are not the same on both sides of the cloth.
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White veils or lace lappets must be worn with the feathers.
The Court Presentation | Edwardian Promenade
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Amid the large and befeathered hats of the day, for instance, she alone wore habitually a kind of coif made of thin black lace on her fair face, the lappets of which were fastened with a diamond close beneath her chin.
The Coryston Family A Novel
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The decorative lappets are red cotton velveteen, folded lengthwise and handsewn closed.
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Bouclier: the pronotum, q.v. Bouton: a button; the terminal lappet-like process at the tip of the ligula in bees: = spoon.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
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The swing-door creaked, and in the doorway appeared a rather short young Jew with a big beak-like nose, with a bald patch surrounded by rough red curly hair; he was dressed in a short and very shabby reefer jacket, with rounded lappets and short sleeves, and in short serge trousers, so that he looked skimpy and short-tailed like an unfledged bird.
The Bishop and Other Stories
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Various other objects from the tomb, including the stole (note the narrowness characteristic for the time) and the cingulum, the cuffs of the gauntlets, crosses from the pallium, and the lappets of the mitre:
Catholic Bamberg: The Vestments of Pope Clement II and Other Treasures from the Diocesan Museum
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A lady about to be presented at Court must appear, if a spinster with two, and if married with three, feathers disposed on her head so that they are visible from the front, and with two long lappets of tulle or lace two yards in length flowing from the back of the hair.
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Pulling on his cinnamon-coloured, bear-lined overcoat as he went, he had just stepped thoughtfully into the street when he collided with a gentleman dressed in a similar coat and an ear-lappeted fur cap.
Dead Souls
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The poisoning of predators has disastrous effects for other species, and has caused a large decline in lappet-faced vultures.
Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands
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The shape of its edge indicates that the maxilla lacked the posterodorsally reflected lappet present in most other mosasaurs.
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Only the final peristomeal differentiations, with fragile lappets, may disappear during fossilization.
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The mountains support a population of the lappet-faced vulture (Torgos tracheliotus), significant in the Middle East since the species is threatened and declining in the region; it is listed as vulnerable on the 2000 IUCN Red List.
Al Hajar Al Gharbi montane woodlands
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The lappet-faced vulture (Torgos tracheliotus), is considered vulnerable by BirdLife International (2000) and is found throughout the ecoregion.
Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands
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Amplexograptus praetypicalis is similar to A. maxwelli in it's overall dimensions, but can be differentiated from the latter species by it's much lower lappets, less inverted thecal apertures, and lack of a median septum.
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A black vulture rose up out of the depths on widespread pinions and floated past them almost within arm's length, turning its gruesome naked head of pink lappeted skin to stare at them with inscrutable black eyes before sailing away.
The Seventh Scroll
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets, when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta, there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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“Because you can see my lappets in it,” said Madame
At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
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Before a tar-paper shack, at a gateless gate, a man in rough brown dogskin coat and black plush cap with lappets was watching her.
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Various other objects from the tomb, including the stole (note the narrowness characteristic for the time) and the cingulum, the cuffs of the gauntlets, crosses from the pallium, and the lappets of the mitre:
Catholic Bamberg: The Vestments of Pope Clement II and Other Treasures from the Diocesan Museum
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It was identified by its big head and 2 white lappets on the corners of its mouth.
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It was specially suitable to the lawns and muslins of the eighteenth century, but little of this lace is left owing, no doubt, to its great favour except the ubiquitous "lappets," for which it was no doubt "the Queen of
Chats on Old Lace and Needlework
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One with gray lappets came forward, carrying a tall staff topped with a carved ram head.
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I would fain merit your esteem, heedless of those pursy fellows from hulks and warehouses, with one ear lappeted by the pen behind it, and the other an heirloom, as Charles would have had it, in Laud's
Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection
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A fyke is a fishnet, with long wings on each side; in shape like a nightcap with ear lappets; in mechanism like a rat-trap.
Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I
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Any fabric with dots created by swivel weave or lappet weave or by flocking.
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Some of the choicest specimens of old Brussels are shown in the now discarded "lappets," which when a lace head-piece and lappets were part of every gentlewoman's costume, were actually regulated by Sumptuary
Chats on Old Lace and Needlework
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Modified ossicles called lappets that border the ambulacral groove function to close off the groove and prevent damage to the tube feet.
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Stairs_, Lappet in _The Miser_, Catherine in _Catherine and Petruchio_,
The Case of Mrs. Clive
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Devoid of attractions or of amiable manners, Madame Guillaume commonly decorated her head — that of a woman near on sixty — with a cap of a particular and unvarying shape, with long lappets, like that of a widow.
At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
