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Lapel

noun

(Written also lappel and lapelle)

Lap at the front of a coat; continuation of the coat collar.

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"Lapel" Quotes from Famous Books

... to the General Hospital, where they would have beds. That night about ten o'clock the vidette halted a man, who explained that he was surgeon in charge of that institution, and when he got leave to go on, I caught him by the lapel of his ...

— Half a Century • Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm

... not ready with a plan, and could not speak English. Wild-eyed, he seized the lapel of my coat in trembling fingers, and with a throat grown suddenly parched, crackled a question at me in Armenian. I ...

— The Eye of Zeitoon • Talbot Mundy

... and more than golden! And yet, for the first minute, Dolly could not speak, and the next she laid her cheek in her favorite place, on the lapel of Grif 's coat, and burst into a great gush of soft, warm tears,—tears without a touch of any other element, however, than ...

— Vagabondia - 1884 • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... glazed hat back upon his head, stroked his face down with his heavy hand—making his nose more mottled in the process—and planting himself before Mr Toots, and hooking him by the lapel of his coat, addressed him in these words, while Mr Toots looked up into his face, with much attention ...

— Dombey and Son • Charles Dickens

... it! I am of the opinion that this is my coat," replied Owen, as he felt of the garment, and turned up the lapel. ...

— The Young Lieutenant - or, The Adventures of an Army Officer • Oliver Optic

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