Examples of “lappet” in a Sentence

noun A small flap or fold of fabric, often lace, used to decorate a piece of clothing or a headdress.

• She raises her face to the light. ‘How do you think I look? What will you say of me when the king asks you? I have not seen myself in a mirror these many months.’ She pats her fur cap, pulls its lappets over her ears; laughs. — Hilary Mantel (2012)

noun A flap-shaped growth, such as a wattle, on the face.

• Some vultures have lappets of bare flesh on the sides of the head.
• Tompot blennies are distinguished by a pair of lappets above the eyes and dark stripes along the body.