Tippet

Quick meaning: Tippet is a noun meaning A shoulder covering, typically the fur of a fox, with long ends that dangle in front.

Meaning

A shoulder covering, typically the fur of a fox, with long ends that dangle in front.

More Meanings

1. A stole worn by Anglican ministers or other clergymen.
2. (Scotland, obsolete) A length of twisted hair or gut in a fishing line.
3. (Scotland, obsolete) A handful of straw bound together at one end, used for thatching.
4. (fishing) In fly fishing, the part of the leader that attaches to the fly.
5. A bird's ruffle.
6. One of the patagia, or pieces at the side of the pronotum of a moth.
7. (historical) A piece of mail armor protecting the shoulders and neck; a camail.

Example Sentences

The school constituency[…]provded “tippets” of straw to repair the thatch

Drygoods shops did not have much that was Christmassy to display except red flannel and rabbit fur baby coats and muffs and tippets.

[…] so this Iesuitical sect is descrired by their long [i]ackets, their course stockinges, their thicke cobled shoes, their long clokes with claspe vnder the chin, their sorbonical tippet […]

We are inclined to think this warrior wears his camail over the upper part of the surcoat, which would account for the sudden disappearance of the shield strap or guige when it reaches the mail tippet.

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