Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Rabbit fur, especially when dyed to imitate a more expensive fur.
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- noun
rabbit fur - noun a
castrated male rabbit
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun castrated male rabbit
- noun the fur of a rabbit
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He draws the reader in with light-touch humor and a fondness for detail, like the finicky primping of a truck with reverse-osmosis rinse water, the hazardous-material rating of Glenlivet Scotch, the bad luck associated with saying the word lapin (“rabbit”) on a French boat or the persistent culture of hobos on coal trains.
How It Gets There From Here- With McPhee Riding Shotgun 2006
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He draws the reader in with light-touch humor and a fondness for detail, like the finicky primping of a truck with reverse-osmosis rinse water, the hazardous-material rating of Glenlivet Scotch, the bad luck associated with saying the word lapin (“rabbit”) on a French boat or the persistent culture of hobos on coal trains.
How It Gets There From Here��� With McPhee Riding Shotgun 2006
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He draws the reader in with light-touch humor and a fondness for detail, like the finicky primping of a truck with reverse-osmosis rinse water, the hazardous-material rating of Glenlivet Scotch, the bad luck associated with saying the word lapin (“rabbit”) on a French boat or the persistent culture of hobos on coal trains.
How It Gets There From Here- With McPhee Riding Shotgun 2006
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The coats range from cheap ratty rabbit (marketed in some quarters as "lapin," which is French for bunny) to the occasional mink with the requisite satin lining and elaborate monogramming.
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Fur has been stealing on to the high street by way of linings, cuffs and a certain strategic obfuscation (labels that say "lapin" rather than the more pitchfork-baiting
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Fur has been stealing on to the high street by way of linings, cuffs and a certain strategic obfuscation (labels that say "lapin" rather than the more pitchfork-baiting
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Fur has been stealing on to the high street by way of linings, cuffs and a certain strategic obfuscation (labels that say "lapin" rather than the more pitchfork-baiting
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Must be the phase of the moon we're in, as she has been known to bite the head off a lapin if she's in a bad mood.
Undine Spragg, International Cocktail Bitch Con Chapman 2012
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At home DSK is simply known admiringly as "un lapin chaud" – a hot bunny – at it like a rabbit, a red-blooded Thumper who'll chase after anything in a skirt.
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At home DSK is simply known admiringly as "un lapin chaud" – a hot bunny – at it like a rabbit, a red-blooded Thumper who'll chase after anything in a skirt.
sumit commented on the word lapin
A castrated rabbit.
January 3, 2007