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Scarflike garment
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tippet
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Word definitions for tippet in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, of unknown origin; perhaps from Old English tæppet "carpet, hanging."
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A tippet is a scarf -like narrow piece of clothing, worn over the shoulders. It may also be likened to a stole in the secular rather than ecclesiastic sense of this word. Tippets evolved in the fourteenth century from long sleeves and typically had one ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tippet \Tip"pet\, n. [OE. tipet, tepet, AS. t[ae]ppet, probably fr. L. tapete tapestry, hangings. Cf. Tape , Tapestry , Tapet .] A cape, or scarflike garment for covering the neck, or the neck and shoulders, -- usually made of fur, cloth, or other warm ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a woman's fur shoulder cape with hanging ends; often consisting of the whole fur of a fox or marten
Usage examples of tippet.
At the second ballet at the opera an actress dressed in a tippet held out her cap to the bones as if to beg an alms, while she was dancing a pas de deux.
Over that again is a tippet, a development of the almuce, or worn over it.
Her friend Miss Chadwick wore a sky-blue jaconet gown with an ermine tippet, and a white satin bonnet with blue ruching and a large blue bow tied off to one side of her heart-shaped face.
She followed her mistress down the stairs, carrying a sapphire-blue kerseymere pelisse and the fur tippet and immense muff the earl had insisted Delia purchase.
Fancy dear Mr Sheepshanks, in all his tippets and toggery, ambling and capering round poor me, and trying to drive the devil out of me with a broomful of holy water!
At the second ballet at the opera an actress dressed in a tippet held out her cap to the bones as if to beg an alms, while she was dancing a pas de deux.
The bear halted in its tracks, wheeled toward Bradley and then back again toward Tippet.
Tippet never stopped running or firing until he stood within a foot of the brute, which lay almost touching Bradley and was already struggling to regain its feet.
It seemed to Bradley that he had scarcely closed his eyes when he was brought to his feet, wide awake, by a piercing scream which was punctuated by the sharp report of a rifle from the direction of the fire where Tippet stood guard.
They heard of the deaths of Tippet and James and of the disappearance of Lieutenant Bradley, and a new terror settled upon Dinosaur.
Placing the muzzle of his gun against the bear's ear, Tippet pulled the trigger.
There were brocades that stood alone with splendor of fabric, there was rich lace, fine linen, ribbons, farthingales, swansdown tippets, and little slippers with high, red heels.
The SAC had been in the newspaper for taking a fly-fishing record for northern pike on one-pound tippet.
There were hats with tippets dangling and flapping about, hats with coronets, hats with bulbous crowns, hats with long and voluptuous plumes and painted hoods.
When you come to worry about Brigid's fortune, and Brigid's tippets, you too may economize on rosin.