Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to Lapland or the Lapps.
- noun The language of the Lapps, which is akin to the Finnic. Also
Lappic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the Lapps; Laplandish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, or pertaining to the
Lapps or their language. - proper noun A language family spoken by the Lappish people.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of the languages spoken by the Lapps and generally assumed to be Uralic languages
Etymologies
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Examples
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"You must have had luck with your fishing, Jon, since you've been at it all night?" said the mountaineer in Lappish, as he approached.
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This restaurant serves a range of traditional and modern Lappish delicacies such as arcticchar, bear, mushrooms, berries as well as trout and vendace roe (www. asrestaurants.com/).
Rudolf for Dinner 2009
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Reindeer meat is served in many restaurants in Lapland but for those who cannot travel that far north, try reindeer in the Lappish Restaurant Saaga, Helsinki.
Rudolf for Dinner 2009
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This restaurant serves a range of traditional and modern Lappish delicacies such as arcticchar, bear, mushrooms, berries as well as trout and vendace roe (www. asrestaurants.com/).
Rudolf for Dinner 2009
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If we can embrace the whole of Scandinavia, disregarding language background e.g. with Finnish, Lappish and Greenlandic, we could perhaps take on board the other two Baltic countries.
Archive 2009-07-01 David McDuff 2009
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Reindeer meat is served in many restaurants in Lapland but for those who cannot travel that far north, try reindeer in the Lappish Restaurant Saaga, Helsinki.
Rudolf for Dinner 2009
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Reindeer meat is served in many restaurants in Lapland but for those who cannot travel that far north, try reindeer in the Lappish Restaurant Saaga, Helsinki.
Rudolf for Dinner 2009
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This restaurant serves a range of traditional and modern Lappish delicacies such as arcticchar, bear, mushrooms, berries as well as trout and vendace roe (www. asrestaurants.com/).
Rudolf for Dinner 2009
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It is Aase — Aase who stands there blocking the way, waving her arms and swishing that Lappish skirt of hers.
The Road Leads On 2003
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She would always appear in Lappish garb — furs sewed together into a kind of smock — and stride straight into the room like a very queen, proud of her comely person, serious and deliberate of speech.
The Road Leads On 2003
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