lappets

Noun

lappet (plural lappets)

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.c. 1575, The Langham letter, page 47
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. (obsolete) A lobe (division of an organ).
   • 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,1634, Philemon Holland, transl., The History of the World: commonly called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus, London, Book 11, Chapter 45, p. 550

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