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  • noun Plural form of lappet.

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Examples

  • 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 Emily Leigh Lowes

  • 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 Emily Leigh Lowes

  • 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 2009

  • White veils or lace lappets must be worn with the feathers.

    The Court Presentation | Edwardian Promenade 2007

  • 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.

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • 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.

    Coming Out 2009

  • 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 2007

  • “Because you can see my lappets in it,” said Madame

    At the Sign of the Cat and Racket 2007

  • 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 2007

  • “Because you can see my lappets in it,” said Madame

    At the Sign of the Cat and Racket 2007

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