lapin
Americannoun
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a rabbit.
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rabbit fur, especially when trimmed and dyed.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of lapin
1900–05; < French, Middle French, perhaps, by suffix alteration, from laperean rabbit < Ibero-Romance; cf. cony
Example Sentences
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New Yorkers raving over slowly braised lapin, complaining about the too small holes in their bread and cheeses!
From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2016
It's the "lapin" I have had occasionally that's giving me the most qualms.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 19, 1919 by Various
He remains the same man as he of whom the brave Commander Bravida used to say: "He's a lapin..."
From Tartarin On The Alps by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
This she kept to herself; it was her wise policy to remain douce comme un lapin blanc, which she did.
From There was a King in Egypt by Lorimer, Norma
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