Lipped

/lɪpt/ · adjective

Meaning

Having a raised lip..

Definitions by Sense

1. Having a raised lip.
2. (in combination) Having some specific type of lip.
3. simple past and past participle of lip.

Example Sentences

lipped pitcher

[…] it seemes a holy quire Founded to th’ name of great Apollo’s lyre, Whose silver-roofe rings with the sprightly notes Of sweet-lipp’d angel-imps, that swill their throats In creame of morning Helicon […]

1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Book Four, p. 191, […] I have seen A curious Child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped Shell;

1933, George R. Preedy (Marjorie Bowen), Double Dallilay (U.S. title Queen’s Caprice), Part 1, The two French girls held the gilt-lipped vases of milk and slowly poured them into the alabaster bath.

We met a yellow-lipped woman.

And all the while the thick-lipped leviathan is rushing through the deep, leaving tons of tumultuous white curds in his wake […]

Amory squeezed into the back seat beside a gaudy, vermilion-lipped blonde.

[He] furrowed his brow, opened his eyes wider and wider until they were expressionless, and attempted to set his small, plump-lipped mouth.

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