Flapping ppl. a.

[+ -ING².] That flaps.

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1592. Wyrley, Armorie, 144.

	Of him late iocound now chaungd frantike woode,
	The flapping brace strikes off his setled hood.

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1706. Lond. Gaz., No. 4236/4. A dark brown Mare … with flapping Ears.

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1711. Gay, Trivia, I. 127.

	This knows the powder’d footman, and with care,
	Beneath his flapping hat secures his hair.

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1859. Geo. Eliot, A. Bede, 414. Totty trotted off in her flapping bonnet.

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1864. Miss Braddon, H. Dunbar, I. xvi. 285. She took the great flapping ears of the animal in her two hands, and led him out of the room.

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