lipped
Etymology
From lip + -ed.
adj
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Having a raised lip. -
(in combination) Having some specific type of lip. […] 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 […] 1646, Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple, Sacred Poems. With The Delights of the Muses, “Musick’s Duell,” lines 73-771814, 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;Amory squeezed into the back seat beside a gaudy, vermilion-lipped blonde. 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, Book Two, Chapter 41933, 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. 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 3We met a yellow-lipped woman.
verb
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simple past and past participle of lip
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