tippet
Noun
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Noun
tippet (plural tippets)
- A shoulder covering, typically the fur of a fox, with long ends that dangle in front.
- 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, “Christmas,”
- Drygoods shops did not have much that was Christmassy to display except red flannel and rabbit fur baby coats and muffs and tippets.
- 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, “Christmas,”
- A stole worn by Anglican ministers or other clergymen.
- 1581, Meredith Hanmer, The Iesuites Banner, London, Chapter 3,
- […] 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 […]
- 1581, Meredith Hanmer, The Iesuites Banner, London, Chapter 3,
- (Scotland, obsolete) A length of twisted hair or gut in a fishing line.
- (Scotland, obsolete) A handful of straw bound together at one end, used for thatching.
- (fishing) 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.
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