1573 T. Twyne tr. Virgil in T. Phaer & T. Twyne tr. Virgil Whole .xii. Bks. Æneidos xi. Kk j b The yelowish silken weed,..Whose lappets ratling large in knot of costly gold were tyde.

1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants iv. ii. i. 164 Or as Taylors use to split their Stomachers into several Lappets, to spread.

1734 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. I. 335 He threw, out of the lappet of his robe, in the midst of the senate, some African figs.

1866 J. G. Murphy Crit. Comm. Exodus xxviii. 8 It was a shoulder-piece..or single lappet covering the back and reaching under the arm.

1677 London Gaz. No. 1215/4 Lost in Easter Term 1676, an Almanack bound with red Leather with a Lappet tyed over with a red Ribon.

1780 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 70 App. 32 I..covered everything well with the lappets of the rag.

1867 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 6) i. iii. 174 The little lappet of tin-foil can be so doubled as to shorten the aperture.

1885 C. Gibbon Hard Knot I. xv. 212 He closed the door,..bolted it, and drew the porcelain ‘lappet’ over the key-hole.

1894 T. W. Fox Mechanism Weaving xii. 313 Swivel-weaving stands in the same relation to picking that lappets stand to shedding.

1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. xiii. 66 The salts of mynt and worme-wood are good to purge the lappets and tunicles of the stomach.

1705 J. Petiver in Philos. Trans. 1704–05 (Royal Soc.) 24 1955 A thin furrowed lappet exerts itself near ¼ of an inch from the side of the Shell.

1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. 446 Slender laciniæ or lappets fringed with hair.

1861 J. R. Greene Man. Animal Kingdom II. 218 The apical appendages, or lappets, of some Beroidæ.

1865 J. G. Jeffreys Brit. Conchol. III. 320 Mantle thin and semitransparent,..lappets large in proportion, forming two saucer-shaped lobes, one on each side of the tentacles.

1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man II. viii. 72 The fleshy appendages about the head of the male Tragopan pheasant swell into a large lappet on the throat.

1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxv. iii. 264 An horsemans jauelin..stucke fast in the neather lappet or fillet of his liuer.

1628 R. Le Grys tr. J. Barclay Argenis ii. 91 The naturall order being broken, the Lappets of it [sc. the liuer] did appeare out of their owne place.

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 95 The Malabars both men and women, the lappets of their Eares are open.

1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. iv. 49 The Lights never cease with its Lappets and Bellows to cool and refresh it [the Blood].

1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. xxxvii. 56 Their Ears large, and the Lappets very thick.

1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 52 A triangular lappet, the so-called ‘columellar lobule’.

1863 J. Watson Theory & Pract. Weaving vi. 207 The framing of a power-loom for weaving Lappets is nearly the same as the framing of one for plain cloth.

1863 J. Watson Theory & Pract. Weaving vi. 227 In working lappets with the jacquard machine, the length of the figure will depend upon the number of cards used.

1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 109/2 For window-curtains, hangings, &c., there are manufactured harness and book muslins, lenos, sprigs, spots, and lappets.

1920 R. Beaumont Union Textile Fabrication ix. 304 Combinations of Lappet and Gauze.—Pattern origination in gauze, lappet, and plain or straight weaving, provides for additional changes in the materials of which the yarns are spun. The lappet (dark sections in Fig. 187) being a surface warp yarn is quite a supplementary element.

1957 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 460/2 Crossed Weaving.—This group includes all fabrics, such as gauzes, in which the warp threads intertwist amongst themselves to give intermediate effects between ordinary weaving and lace. Also those, such as Lappets, in which some warp threads are laid transversely..to imitate embroidery.

1894 T. W. Fox Mechanism Weaving ix. 250 Elaborate figures are beyond the range of lappets, still there are many small effects that can be economically woven by them.

1924 W. P. Crankshaw Weaving xi. 121 Lappets, Swivels, Smallwares and Warp Piles... Lappet and swivel mechanisms are used to produce effects which resemble those obtained by embroidery.

1927 T. Thornley Cotton Spinning (ed. 4) ix. 311 (heading) The lappets or thread boards and wires.

1927 T. Thornley Cotton Spinning (ed. 4) ix. 311 During recent years metal thread lappets have become very largely used, being much less likely to warp, become damaged or to lose concentricity with the spindles although the first cost of metal lappets is greater than wood ones.