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lapel - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

lapel (plural lapels)

  • Each of the two triangular pieces of cloth on the front of a jacket or coat that are folded back below the throat, leaving a triangular opening between.
    • ✤ His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. “Phil! You! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow!” recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.1

Etymology

From lap + -el (“diminutive suffix”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA: /ləˈpɛl/
    • Audio (Southern England): 🔊
  • (Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /ləˈpel/
  • Rhymes: -ɛl

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Footnotes

  1. 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC: ↩

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