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”