tippet
noun
- scarflike cape of fur or cloth which fasten around the neck and hang down in front; worn over vestments by clergy and as fashionable wraps in the 18th century
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈtɪpɪt/
name
Etymology: Variant of Tibbett.
- A surname.
noun
Etymology: From Middle English tippet, Old English tæppet, from Latin tapete (“cloth”).
- A shoulder covering, typically the fur of a fox, with long ends that dangle in front.
“Drygoods shops did not have much that was Christmassy to display except red flannel and rabbit fur baby coats and muffs and tippets.”
“In practice, this "sunshine roof" did not prove so attractive, since a correspondent wrote to the Railway Times on September 4, 1839, recording that a third-class lady passenger "had her tippet set on fire, and, in extinguishing the same, severely burnt her hand.”
- A stole worn by Anglican ministers or other clergymen.
“[…] 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 […]”
- A piece of mail armor protecting the shoulders and neck; a camail.
“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.”
“Taking the place of the mail coif is the “camail” or mail tippet, which is fastened to the edge of the bascinet. His arm defences show circular plates or “palettes,” which guard the inside of the arm at pit and elbow.”
- A length of twisted hair or gut in a fishing line.
- A handful of straw bound together at one end, used for thatching.
“The school constituency[…]provded “tippets” of straw to repair the thatch”
- In fly fishing, the part of the leader that attaches to the fly.
- A bird's ruffle.
- One of the patagia, or pieces at the side of the pronotum of a moth.