lappet

noun

1. A small decorative fold or flap, especially of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress.

   “Oout of hiz boozom drawn foorth a lappet of his napkin, edged with a blu la[c]e, and marked with a trulooue, a hart & a D, for Damian: for he waz but a bachelar yet.”

   “[…] lifting up the Lappet of his Coat, he put me gently into it, and immediately ran along with me to his Master […]”

   “[…] he was presently undrest, all to his shirt, the fore-lappet of which, as he lean’d languishingly on me, he smilingly pointed to me, to observe, as it bellied out, or rose, and fell, according to the unruly starts of the motion behind it:”

   “He wears […] a white wig, the curls of which hang down like lappets over his shoulders, and form a good contrast with the plump, rosy, shining face beneath it.”

   “Her rich, becoming dress fitted her perfect shape most admirably, and Fanchette had never arranged her coiffure to more advantage; the rich lappet of blonde, carelessly tied under the chin, hid all the "defeatures time had made," without hiding the long white throat, for which she had always been remarkable, and was a beauty which had descended to all her daughters, even to the stigmatized Isabella.”

2. A wattle or flap-like structure on the face.

   “Some vultures have lappets of bare flesh on the sides of the head.”

   “Tompot blennies are distinguished by a pair of lappets above the eyes and dark stripes along the body.”

3. A head-dress made with lappets for lace pendants.
4. (obsolete)A lobe (division of an organ).

   “In the tender lappet of the eare is supposed to rest the seat of remembrance, which we vse to touch when we mean to take one to beare witnesse of an arrest or other thing done,”

   “[…] he ran him in with the spit a little above the navel, towards the right flank, till he pierced the third lappet of his liver,”

verb

1. (transitive)To decorate with, or as if with, lappets.

   “I would fain merit your esteem, heedless of these pursy fellows from hulks and warehouses, with one ear lappetted by the pen behind it […]”