flaps

«flaps» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: curtains or flaps — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

curtains or flaps

part of speech

noun, plural of flap

meaning for a pupil

loose hanging coverings over an opening, such as the door of a tent or hut. tree →

how it differs from today

Today a flap is a loose hanging part of something, such as an envelope or a wing; here it means the hanging cover over a doorway, a sense now rare.

examples

• On the following morning at daybreak, peeped the people out of half-open door-flaps. (Old Indian Legends) tree →
• [Footnote 3: 'Pinners' were coifs with two long side-flaps pinned on. 'Double-pinners'--with two side-flaps on each side--accurately translates the French cornettes à deux rangs.] (The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault) tree →
• Very early the oval-shaped door-flaps were thrust aside and many brown faces peered out of the wigwams toward the top of the highest bluff. (Old Indian Legends) tree →

primary record

flaps

tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 5 (Torah 0, tales 5, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.6 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

In the corpora

• Sugar gliders are tiny marsupials with skin flaps between their legs that can glide about fifty metres from tree to tree at night.
• An elephant's big thin ears are full of blood vessels and give off heat like radiators when it flaps them.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «flaps» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.