Flapped

ppl. a. [f. FLAP sb. + -ED².]

  1.  Of the cheek or ear: Formed like a flap; pendulous.

1661.  K. W., Confused Characters, Informer (1860), 47. Why his reverend ears would serve very well for two leathern patches, to sow to each side his flapt jaws, for this brother hath got too much of the gift of utterance.

1840.  Dickens, Old C. Shop, xlviii. The dwarf put his hand to his great flapped ear and counterfeited the closest attention.

  2.  Of a hat or garment: Having a flap or flaps.

1748.  Richardson, Clarissa (1811), V. viii. 90. I pulled off my flapt slouched hat.

1780.  J. Adams, Diary, 1 Jan. Wks. 1851, III. 246. A little hat covered with oil cloth, flapped before.

1848.  Mrs. Jameson, Sacr. & Leg. Art (1850), 141. The cloak with a long cape, the scallop shell on his shoulder, or on his flapped hat.

1860.  Hawthorne, Fr. & It. Jrnls., II. 303. His marble statue is in a niche at one end of the great pump-room, in wig, square-skirted coat, flapped waistcoat, and all the queer costume of the period, still looking ghost-like upon the scene where he used to be an autocrat.