Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
lapel .
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- noun Alternative, and possibly dated, spelling of
lapel
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Examples
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It appears this gentleman still has a Confederate flag on his lappel, just sayin’
Think Progress » Swift Boat Leader Hired To Run Right-Wing ‘Online Community’ 2007
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It appears this gentleman still has a Confederate flag on his lappel, just sayin’
Think Progress » Swift Boat Leader Hired To Run Right-Wing ‘Online Community’ 2007
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Corner, by the lappel of his coat; ‘you must persuade the Serjeant to see me, and my client here.’
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Gonzales even has his little symbol on his lappel.
Think Progress » Gonzales: ‘There Is No Express Grant of Habeas Corpus In The Constitution’ 2007
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‘Gadso!’ said the undertaker: taking Mr. Bumble by the gilt – edged lappel of his official coat; ‘that’s just the very thing I wanted to speak to you about.
Oliver Twist 2007
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A rosette of pins decorated the lappel of his coat.
The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006
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Lord of yourself, Lord of every hour in the long, vacant day; you may go where you please, call none Sir or Madame, have a lappel free of pins, doff your black morning coat, and wear the colour of your heart, and be a Man.
The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006
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Not poisonous or at all dreaded by the natives; finely striped down the back, and spotted with deep brown equal marks; has a lappel on each side of the vent.
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The next moment, however, he laid a hand on the lappel of
Maurice Guest 2003
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And during the speech the collar or lappel annoyed both speaker and audience by persisting in rising up unbidden.
The Life of Abraham Lincoln Henry Ketcham
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