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tip·pet

 (tĭp′ĭt)
n.
1. A covering for the shoulders, as of fur, with long ends that hang in front.
2. A long stole worn by members of the Anglican clergy.
3. A long hanging part, as of a sleeve, hood, or cape.
4. The thinnest end of a tapered fly-fishing leader.

[Middle English tipet, perhaps from tip, tip of an object.]
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tippet

(ˈtɪpɪt)
n
1. (Clothing & Fashion) a woman's fur cape for the shoulders, often consisting of the whole fur of a fox, marten, etc
2. (Ecclesiastical Terms) the long stole of Anglican clergy worn during a service
3. (Clothing & Fashion) a long streamer-like part to a sleeve, hood, etc, esp in the 16th century
4. (Zoology) the ruff of a bird
5. (Angling) a tippet feather or something similar used in dressing some artificial angling flies
[C14: perhaps from tip1]
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tip•pet

(ˈtɪp ɪt)

n.
1. a scarf, usu. of fur or wool, for covering the neck and shoulders, and usu. having ends hanging down in front.
2. a band of silk or the like worn by Anglican clergy around the neck with the ends pendent in front.
3. a long, narrow, pendent part of a hood or sleeve.
[1250–1300; Middle English; see tip1, -et]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.tippet - a woman's fur shoulder cape with hanging ends; often consisting of the whole fur of a fox or marten
cape, mantle - a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter
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Translations

tippet

[ˈtɪpɪt] Nesclavina f
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tippet

n (old, woman’s) → Schultertuch nt; (Eccl) → Stola f
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References in classic literature ?
There was no fire, though the weather was cold; both children were wrapped in some poor shawls and tippets as a substitute.
She followed the Marchioness into the hall, saw her fitted into a miscellaneous heap of overshoes, shawls and tippets, and called from the doorstep: "Mind, the carriage is to be back for me at ten!" Then she returned to the drawing-room, where Archer, on re-entering it, found her standing by the mantelpiece, examining herself in the mirror.
The studious young ladies at Alton College, elbows on desk and hands over ears, shuddered chillily in fur tippets whilst they loaded their memories with the statements of writers on moral science, or, like men who swim upon corks, reasoned out mathematical problems upon postulates.
But all seemed alike, as muffled in cloaks, hoods, coats, or tippets, they glided along the narrow passages in the snow which led under the houses, half hid by the bank that had been thrown up in excavating the deep path in which they trod.
So much so, in truth, that those just people, the Delawares, called him the 'Openhand.' I wish, now, I was as I used to be, in order that I might send in the lady a few delicate martens for her tippets and overcoats, just to show you that I know how to give courtesy for courtesy.
Upon the fourth day of September, 1916, he set out with four companions, Sinclair, Brady, James, and Tippet, to search along the base of the barrier cliffs for a point at which they might be scaled.
Taller and broader than her husband, her flowing gown of sendall, and fur-lined tippet, could not conceal the gaunt and ungraceful outlines of her figure.
For the same reason she wore a small sable tippet, which reached just to her shoulders, and was very far from meeting across her well-formed chest, while her long neck was protected by a chevaux-de-frise of miscellaneous frilling.
There were beasts of all sorts; horses, in particular, of every breed, from the spotted barrel on four pegs, with a small tippet for a mane, to the thoroughbred rocker on his highest mettle.
'Sage, Reading' (a specially oily old gentleman in a blanket, with a swan's-down tippet for a beard, and a web of cracks all over him like rich pie-crust), to be a fine Guercino.
He had a scanty flat crop of hair, in colour and consistency like some very mangy yellow fur tippet; it was so unlike hair, that it must have been a wig, but for the stupendous improbability of anybody's voluntarily sporting such a head.
"Jane, Jane, my dear Jane, where are you?Here is your tippet. Mrs.