lapel• Jim wore a blueribbon on his black lapel.• Now police have seized 3,000 forgedlapeltickets in a raid on this Birmingham pub and a number of houses.• She takes the pin from me, secures it back on her lapel, and drifts off.• He stumbled, but before he could fall, he was spun around and Buck Leeper grabbed him by his lapel.• Makeup began to whiten his lapels like droppings on a statue.• There is a lot of lapeltwitching.• As Singer went back, he grabbed Pascoe's lapel, dragging him on, and they both fell.• He stood, and Squirt held up the silver jacket with the satinlapels and Mulcahey put his arms into it.
Originlapel
(1600-1700) → LAP11 in the earlier meaning “part of clothing that can be folded over”
ADJECTIVE | VERB + LAPEL | LAPEL + NOUN | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤narrow, wide窄翻領;寬翻領◇a coat with wide lapels寬翻領大衣VERB + LAPEL➤be pinned to別到翻領上◇A brooch was pinned to her lapel.她的翻領上別着一枚胸針。LAPEL + NOUN➤badge, button, pin (especially BrE) 領章;領扣;領針PREPOSITION➤in the/your lapel在翻領裏◇He was wearing a carnation in his lapel.他的翻領裏別着一支康乃馨。➤on the/your lapel在翻領上◇a jacket with a pin on the lapel帶領針的夾克PHRASES➤grab sb by the lapels抓住某人的領子◇He grabbed her by the lapels and shook her violently.他抓住她的領子,狠命搖晃。