tippet

/ˈtɪpɪt/
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Definitions of tippet
  1. noun
    a woman's fur shoulder cape with hanging ends; often consisting of the whole fur of a fox or marten
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    type of:
    cape, mantle
    a sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter
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Vocabulary from poems by Emily Dickinson

As you read Emily Dickinson's "The Soul selects her own Society," "Because I could not stop for Death," "Much Madness is divinest Sense," and "Tell all the truth but tell it slant," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 11's Collection 3: Song of Myself, Growing Up Asian in America, poems by Emily Dickinson, Walden, Against Nature, The Minister's Black Veil, The Pit and the Pendulum

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