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Look up <i> tippet</i> in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. <p>A tippet is a piece of clothing worn over the shoulders in the shape of a <a href="/facts/Scarf/uUlMCIKh">scarf</a> or <a href="/facts/Cape/yKxpcVNe">cape</a>. Tippets evolved in the <a href="/facts/1300%E2%80%931400_in_fashion/EE0JtU29"> fourteenth century</a> from long sleeves and typically had one end hanging down to the knees. A tippet (or tappit) could also be the long, narrow, streamer-like strips of fabric - attached with an armband just above the elbow - that hung gracefully to the knee or even to the ground. In later fashion, a tippet is often any scarf-like wrap, usually made of <a href="/facts/Fur/4hVxpDQ0">fur</a>, such as the <a href="/facts/1550%E2%80%931600_in_fashion/fE3pmUA9"> sixteenth-century</a> <a href="/facts/Zibellino/JUxySMlC">zibellino</a> or the fur-lined <a href="/facts/Capelet/yKxpcVNe">capelets</a> worn in the <a href="/facts/1700%E2%80%931750_in_fashion/EIo5L6nq"> mid-18th century</a>. </p>