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tippet¹
- /ˈtɪpɪt/
Rhymes with -ɪpɪt
Where it comes from
From Middle English tippet, Old English tæppet, from Latin tapete (“cloth”).
noun tippets
- A shoulder covering, typically the fur of a fox, with long ends that dangle in front. Drygoods shops did not have much that was Christmassy to display except red flannel and rabbit fur baby coats and muffs and tippets.
- A stole worn by Anglican ministers or other clergymen. […] so this Iesuitical sect is descrired by their long [i]ackets, their course stockinges, their thicke cobled shoes, their long clokes with claspe vnder the chin, their sorbonical tippet […]
- A piece of mail armor protecting the shoulders and neck; a camail. We are inclined to think this warrior wears his camail over the upper part of the surcoat, which would account for the sudden disappearance of the shield strap or guige when it reaches the mail tippet.
- A length of twisted hair or gut in a fishing line.
- A handful of straw bound together at one end, used for thatching. The school constituency[…]provded “tippets” of straw to repair the thatch
- In fly fishing, the part of the leader that attaches to the fly.
- A bird's ruffle.
- One of the patagia, or pieces at the side of the pronotum of a moth.
Tippet²
Where it comes from
Variant of Tibbett.
proper noun Tippets
- A surname.
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title = {tippet},
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