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- Dictionarylappet/ˈlapɪt/
noun
- 1. a fold or hanging piece of flesh in some animals.
- 2. a brownish moth, the hairy caterpillars of which have fleshy lappets along each side of the body.
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A lappet is a decorative flap, fold or hanging part of a headdress or garment. Worn in a pair, or as a singular long strip giving a symmetrical drape, lappets were a popular form of women's headwear until the early twentieth century, and are still a feature of religious garments.
1. : a fold or flap on a garment or headdress. 2. : a flat overlapping or hanging piece. Word History. First Known Use. 1573, in the meaning defined at sense 1. Time Traveler. The first known use of lappet was in 1573. See more words from the same year. Dictionary Entries Near lappet. lapper. lappet caterpillar. See More Nearby Entries.
Lappet definition: a small lap, flap, or loosely hanging part, especially of a garment or headdress.. See examples of LAPPET used in a sentence.
lappet in American English. (ˈlæpɪt) noun. 1. a small lap, flap, or loosely hanging part, esp. of a garment or headdress. 2. a projecting, lobelike structure in certain invertebrate animals. 3.Ornithology. a wattle or other fleshy process on a bird's head.
Define lappet. lappet synonyms, lappet pronunciation, lappet translation, English dictionary definition of lappet. n. 1. A decorative flap or loose fold on a garment or headdress. 2. A flaplike structure, such as the wattle of a bird or the lobe of the ear.
noun. a small lap on a garment or headdress. see more. noun. a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards. synonyms: wattle. see more. noun. medium-sized hairy moths; larvae are lappet caterpillars.
Lappet, any member of the insect genus Tolype of the Lasiocampidae family of moths (order Lepidoptera). The genus includes the eggars, named for their egg-shaped cocoons, and the tent caterpillars, which spin huge, tent-shaped communal webs in trees.
