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# flaps

«flaps» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **curtains or flaps** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

curtains or flaps

### part of speech

noun, plural of flap

### meaning for a pupil

loose hanging coverings over an opening, such as the door of a tent or hut. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/flaps/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today a flap is a loose hanging part of something, such as an envelope or a wing; here it means the hanging cover over a doorway, a sense now rare.

### examples

- On the following morning at daybreak, peeped the people out of half-open door-flaps. (Old Indian Legends) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/flaps/#x1)
- [Footnote 3: 'Pinners' were coifs with two long side-flaps pinned on. 'Double-pinners'--with two side-flaps on each side--accurately translates the French cornettes à deux rangs.] (The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/flaps/#x2)
- Very early the oval-shaped door-flaps were thrust aside and many brown faces peered out of the wigwams toward the top of the highest bluff. (Old Indian Legends) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/flaps/#x3)

### primary record

flaps

### tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 5 (Torah 0, tales 5, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.6 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### In the corpora

- [Sugar gliders are tiny marsupials with skin flaps between their legs that can glide about fifty metres from tree to tree at night.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/14/)
- [An elephant's big thin ears are full of blood vessels and give off heat like radiators when it flaps them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/25-keeping-warm-and-keeping-cool/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «flaps» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/F/flaps/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.