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Recent Examples of tippet
Simply slide the notched cylinder down the tippet to the fly and twist your wrist, freeing the hook.
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Greg Thomas, Outside Online, 27 May 2022
The Beartooth Package includes the rod, rod tube, rod sock, line, line holder, flies, and tippet.
—Necee Regis, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2023
Basic gear like nippers, forceps to pinch barbs or remove hooks, tippet to attach new flies to the leader, and some good wading or water shoes are good to have.
—Outside Online, 9 May 2022
Use a 7- or 8-weight rod, matching floating line with an 8-foot leader including a 2-foot bite tippet of 20-pound fluorocarbon or monofilament.
—Bill May, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 21 Nov. 2021
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Greg Thomas, Outside Online, 27 May 2022
The Beartooth Package includes the rod, rod tube, rod sock, line, line holder, flies, and tippet.
—Necee Regis, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2023
Basic gear like nippers, forceps to pinch barbs or remove hooks, tippet to attach new flies to the leader, and some good wading or water shoes are good to have.
—Outside Online, 9 May 2022
Use a 7- or 8-weight rod, matching floating line with an 8-foot leader including a 2-foot bite tippet of 20-pound fluorocarbon or monofilament.
—Bill May, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 21 Nov. 2021
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Noun
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Rather than betray alienation, her surviving correspondence—mostly to Cassandra—talks of fabrics, caps and pelisses (a type of woman’s cloak); social calls, dinners, and balls; the weather; her mother’s health; and people—often dozens of names.—
Robert Garnett,
WSJ,
14 July 2017
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Rather than betray alienation, her surviving correspondence—mostly to Cassandra—talks of fabrics, caps and pelisses (a type of woman’s cloak)—
Robert Garnett,
WSJ,
14 July 2017
Noun
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For more of a European flair, there’s the mantilla veil.—
Laura Lajiness Kaupke,
Vogue,
3 Sep. 2024
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Weirdest Head Gear Lana Del Rey, wearing an Alexander McQueen gown, was topped by a thorn of crowns or Spanish mantilla — or maybe both.—
Merle Ginsberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
6 May 2024
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At the brand’s fall 2025 show on Feb. 24, chief creative officer Daniel Lee sent coats, capes and trenches down the runway in the earthy dark browns, greens and burgundies pulled from the British countryside.—
Violet Goldstone,
WWD,
7 Mar. 2025
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Four of the dancers, representing wind, wear sheer, pleated capes with an iridescent sheen that attached to shoulder straps and arm bands.—
Marcia Luttrell,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 Mar. 2025
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For her label Anissa Aida, designer Anissa Meddeb, who lives in the capital, makes gossamer silk blouses evoking the striped motif of handwoven fouta towels and voluminous coats inspired by the burnoose cloaks worn by Berbers.—
Sarah Khan,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 Feb. 2020
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On a rainy day men wore winter-weight burnooses with the large hoods drawn up—enigmatic Jedi-like figures in the medina's alleyways.—
Klara Glowczewska,
Town & Country,
30 Mar. 2015
Noun
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According to reports from Telemundo San Diego and Mexican publication El Universal, a narco manta — a banner used by cartels to communicate threats publicly — was posted on a bridge and addressed to Grupo Firme.—
Edward Segarra,
USA TODAY,
28 Feb. 2025
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And although stingray tails have a fearsome reputation for deadly stings, manta tails lack defensive spines entirely.—
Jack Tamisiea,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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Her phone would stay with her, in a woven handbag draped over her blue poncho.—
Jordan Salama,
The New Yorker,
6 Jan. 2025
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Enter a car seat poncho, which can drape over a car seat harness instead of fitting underneath it like a traditional coat.—
Chaunie Brusie, RN,
Parents,
24 Jan. 2025
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Michelle Yeoh’s blush pink Dior two-piece came complete with a capelet at the back, an unexpected detail that paid off.—
Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
19 Feb. 2023
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Zoë Saldana Zoë Saldana wears a black Michael Kors Collection skirt with a chainmail capelet created by Cartier and Tyler Ellis clutch.—
Alex Apatoff,
Peoplemag,
13 Mar. 2023
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“Tippet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tippet. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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