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Lappet vs Bashlyk - What's the difference?

lappet | bashlyk |

As nouns the difference between lappet and bashlyk

is that lappet is a small decorative fold or flap, especially of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress while bashlyk is a protective cone-shaped hood with lappets for wrapping around the neck, used especially by Turks and Cossacks.

As a verb lappet

is to decorate with, or as if with, lappets.

lappet

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small decorative fold or flap, especially of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress.
  • (zoology) 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.

    Derived terms

    * lappet moth

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To decorate with, or as if with, lappets.
  • (Landor)

    Anagrams

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    bashlyk

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A protective cone-shaped hood with lappets for wrapping around the neck, used especially by Turks and Cossacks.
  • * 1962 , Henri Troyat, Daily Life in Russia Under the Last Tsar , page 123
  • In winter the troops wore the grey greatcoat and the bashlyk , a sort of hood protecting the neck and ears.
  • * 1968 , Jacob Neusner, A History of the Jews in Babylonia , page 102
  • The description of Jews wearing very high hats ("as tall as themselves" or "an amah'' high") calls to mind the tall pointed cap, or hood ''bashlyk''''' brought by the Iranians from the Siberian steppes. The '''''bashlyk occurs with great frequency among the Medean and Persian tribes.
  • * 1983 , E. Yarshater, The Cambridge History of Iran , volume 3(1), page 303
  • The obverse bust wears a completely new style of bashlyk , resembling the Macedonian kausia , but with a flap at the back and an eagle on top.
  • * 2007 , Ferdinand Ossendowski, Beasts, Men and Gods , page 89
  • Then one of the strangers mounted the throne, where he took off his bashlyk or cap-like head covering. All of the Lamas fell to their knees as they recognized the man who had been long ago described in the sacred bulls of Dalai Lama, Tashi Lama and Bogdo Khan.

    See also

    * (wikipedia "bashlyk") * calpack

    References