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Definition of Earlaps
1. earlap [n] - See also: earlap
Lexicographical Neighbors of Earlaps
Literary usage of Earlaps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Country School in New England by Clifton Johnson (1893)
"When in use the strings were tied under the chin ; at other times the earlaps
were turned up at the side of the cap, and the strings tied over the top. ..."
2. The Promised Land by Mary Antin (1912)
"and my little brother, rosy, too, and aristocratic-looking enough, in his little
greatcoat tied with a red sash, and little fur cap with earlaps. ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1888)
"... they were supposed to have a peculiar repulsive exhalation, to be destitute
of earlaps, to be color-blind, to see in the night like cats and owls, ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"... the regimental colors, and cloth caps shaped like a helmet cover, with a
neck-guard and earlaps. Arms, footwear, and leather fittings were faultless. ..."
5. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University, Herbert Baxter Adams (1889)
"... the fixing of a boundary stone, the finding of a treasure or the like,—of
taking boys and unexpectedly boxing their ears or snipping their earlaps, ..."
6. The Autobiography of Thomas Collier Platt: With Twenty Portraits in Sepia by Thomas Collier Platt, Louis Jay Lang (1910)
"... overcoat, mitts and earlaps. With few exceptions, those who did most to place
Harrison first in the United States Senate and then in the Presidency, ..."
7. The History of Japan: Together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam by Engelbert Kaempfer, Simon Delboe, Hamond Gibben, William Ramsden (1906)
"Their earlaps are cut through with a slit, and are so long, that they reach the
shoulders. Their hair is curl'd, tied over the crown in two knots, ..."
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