"Lappet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... unwomanly. A fine fur tunic, reaching but little below the knee, was all the skirt she wore; below were the cross-bound shoes and leggings that a hunter wears. A white fur cap was set low upon the brows, and from its edge strips of fur fell lappet-wise about her shoulders; two of these at her entrance had been drawn forward and crossed about her throat, but now, loosened and thrust back, left unhidden long plaits of fair hair that lay forward on shoulder and breast, down to the ivory-studded ...
— The Were-Wolf • Clemence Housman
... looks now, dressed In a sledging-cap and vest! 'Tis a huge fur cloak— Like a reindeer's zoke Falls the lappet along the breast: Sleeves for her arms to rest, Or to hang, as my ...
— Browning's Heroines • Ethel Colburn Mayne |
