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Meaning of lipped | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1
/lɪpt/

Definitions

  1. Having a raised lip.
    not-comparable
  2. Having some specific type of lip.
    in-compounds, not-comparable

Examples

“lipped pitcher”
“[…] 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 […]”
“1814, 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 […]”
“Amory squeezed into the back seat beside a gaudy, vermilion-lipped blonde.”
“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.”
“[He] furrowed his brow, opened his eyes wider and wider until they were expressionless, and attempted to set his small, plump-lipped mouth.”
“We met a yellow-lipped woman.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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