lappet

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small decorative fold or flap, especially of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress.
    — Oout of hiz boozom drawn foorth a lappet of his napkin, edged with a blu la[c]e, and marked with a trulooue, a hart & a D, for Damian: for he waz but a bachelar yet.
    Fanny Hill
  2. A wattle or flap-like structure on the face.
    — Some vultures have lappets of bare flesh on the sides of the head.
  3. A head-dress made with lappets for lace pendants.
  4. A lobe (division of an organ). obsolete
    — In the tender lappet of the eare is supposed to rest the seat of remembrance, which we vse to touch when we mean to take one to beare witnesse of an arrest or other thing done,
动词 v.
  1. To decorate with, or as if with, lappets. transitive
    — I would fain merit your esteem, heedless of these pursy fellows from hulks and warehouses, with one ear lappetted by the pen behind it […]

词形变化

lappets plural lappets present,singular,third-person lappeting participle,present lappeted participle,past lappeted past

词汇关系

衍生词
lappet-faced vulture lappet moth

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English lap
English -et
English lappet
From lap + -et.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English lap
English -et
English lappet
From lap + -et.
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