Meanings
alternative obsolete lipt
- in compoundsnot comparableHaving some specific type of lip.
1933, George R. Preedy (Marjorie Bowen), Double Dallilay (U.S. title Queen’s Caprice), Part 1, The two French girls held the gilt-lipped vases of milk and slowly poured them into the alabaster bath.
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[…] it seemes a holy quire Founded to th’ name of great Apollo’s lyre, Whose silver-roofe rings with the sprightly notes Of sweet-lipp’d angel-imps, that swill their throats In creame of morning Helicon […]
1646, Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple, Sacred Poems. With The Delights of the Muses, “Musick’s Duell,” lines 73-771814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Book Four, p. 191, […] I have seen A curious Child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped Shell;
And all the while the thick-lipped leviathan is rushing through the deep, leaving tons of tumultuous white curds in his wake […]
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLCAmory squeezed into the back seat beside a gaudy, vermilion-lipped blonde.
1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, Book Two, Chapter 4[He] furrowed his brow, opened his eyes wider and wider until they were expressionless, and attempted to set his small, plump-lipped mouth.
1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 3
Synonyms & antonyms
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adjectivehaving a lip or lips
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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Translations
Irish gobach
- gobachhaving a raised lip
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