Word: lappel
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...skirts, without pockets or flaps, with a silk or covered button of the same colour; the cape or collar is made to sit close around the neck, with a becoming fall in front, which shows a small portion only of the waistcoat. The lower part of the lappel is not cut in the usual vulgar manner, but forms an elegant slope, the outline of which was FURNISHED BY THE PRINCE HIMSELF. No part of the waistcoat is to be seen beneath the lappel. No silk facings to the coat, nor slashed sleeves. Shoes and strings...
About one hundred members of the Institute of Technology visited the Globe Theatre last night. Each one had pinned to the lappel of his coat a piece of white cardboard on which were the words. "I am not A. W. Walker." These placards were caused by the speech of Mr. Walker in a previous meeting of the students, in which he declared that it would be no less a disgrace to the Institute than to himself if the students attended the theatre in a body. Ten policemen were stationed among the students to preserve order, but in spite of them...
...this same country town, upon whom he calls. See him when, before he enters in front of the assembled school, he stops and furtively brushes his beaver, and dusts off his boots. Ah! he has the disease. See him mount the platform and sit down, composedly throwing back the lappel of his coat. See him coolly adjust his eye-glasses (at home he only needs them for reading), and gaze around the room. You would certainly suppose him one of the great men of the land. One of the small boys thinks he is the governor. He rather enjoys this...
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