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Tippet(t, Tepat, n. Also: tippat(t, -ate, tip(p)it, tipott, typ(p)et(t, -at, tepate, -et(t, teppet, toupat, tuppat. [ME and e.m.E. tipet (c1300), typet (Chaucer), tepet (c1400), typett (Prompt. Parv.), typpet (1530), tippit(t (1532-3), tippet (1550); f. Eng. tip n. the apex of a thing. See note below.] A tippet. Also proverb.The word was orig. ‘used as a synonym for the liripipe pendant from the apex of the hood and hanging down the back or … twisted turbanwise about the crown of the hood' and later ‘a narrow strip of material worn on the shoulders with the ends hanging down the front of the body’ (C. R. Beard Dictionary of Costume and Armour s.v. Tippet).(a) 1473 Treas. Acc. I 17.
xxiiij bestis of grece to lyne a typpat to the king 1473 Treas. Acc. I 74.
ij elne j quarter of satyne for tippatis, colaris, and birlatis 1474 Treas. Acc. I 21.
j tippat of veluous, extending to the halue of vj quarteris of veluous, price xl s. a1500 Peblis to Play 21.
Scho tuik the tippet be the end To lat it hing scho leit nocht 1483 Acta Aud. *112/1. 1533–4 Treas. Acc. VI 186.
For ane stele bonet … for ane fyne blak bonet to cover the samyn … Item, to be ane typpat thairto, ane thrid part elne of taphety of the cord 1533–4 Treas. Acc. VI 184.
Tippate 1534 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 144.
Gudis of ayrschip: … his tippat of sylk 1535 Treas. Acc. VI 248.
Deliverit to the said Johne to be ane typpet to the said bonet, and ane ryding typpet to ane uthir bonet, ane elne taphety of the cord 1538 Treas. Acc. VII 104.
For ane Frenche hat, and ane quarter of taffiteis to be ane typpett thairto 1539 Aberd. B. Rec. I 161.
Ane blak hatt, and ane typat, cost viii s. 1543 Acta Conc. Publ. Aff. 535.
[Certain armed Scots] musalit with tippettis our thar faices 1551 Treas. Acc. X 38.
v quarteris taffite to be ane tippett to Lady Anne 1568 Edinb. Test. I 169.
Ane knapiskaw coverit with blak and ane tippet of taffety a1605 Birrel Diary 27 (see Knapscall n. b (4)).
Cnapscull tippet 1664 Household Bks. Archb. Sharp in Misc. Maitl. C. II 508.
For ribbones to my lordis tippet 1666-74 Fraser Polichron. 164.
The fellow … shot an arrow at him, which stuck fast in the tippet of his monutire cape which hung behind his back c1680 Bk. Dunvegan 196.
Tipit one black easie £5 8 .(b) a1500 Henr. Garmont 26.
Hir hat suld be of fair having And hir tepat of trewth 1478 Acta Conc. I 16/1.
William sale restor to … Robert his belt, his knyf, his hate & his tepate 1481 Sources and Lit. Sc. Law I 297.
[Thrown on a horse and bound with a] tepat 1494 Treas. Acc. I 233.
Gevin to the Lord Ilis to his abilȝement again Ȝule … Item for a tepet of vellus to the samyne xxiiij s. 1495 Halyb. 90.
A tepat of wellus … for the makyn and furyn of this tepat 1503 Treas. Acc. II 228.
vij elne blew taffeti to be tua lang tepatis for the king 1505 Treas. Acc. III 38.
For ane tepat of naro taffetj to the king viij s. 1507 Treas. Acc. IV 16.
For ane tepat to the collar of the kingis cloke 1512 Treas. Acc. IV 203.
For ane tepat to the said hat 1541–2 Treas. Acc. VIII 61.
Tepettis a1568 Bann. MS 228b/16.
Off huimbilnes suld be hir hatt Hir teppet of temperans(c) 1473 Treas. Acc. I 16.
j½ elne of vellous for ij tuppatis to the king 1637 Black Bk. Taymouth xxiii.
For iiii ell of reid barrikin to be him ane toupatproverb. a1598 Ferg. Prov. No. 430.
Of unconstant persons … He hes changed his tippet, or his cloak on the other shoulder

b. specif. As worn by non-Presbyterian clerics ‘a synonym for the black ecclesiastical scarf’ (C. R. Beard Dictionary of Costume and Armour s.v. Tippet). 1469 Coll. Aberd. & B. 348.
Ipse Alexander ad dictas terras debatabiles una cum dicto Abbate multisque aliis accessit et super eodem fundo pillium suum cum le typpat per modum reductionis dictarum segitum 1561 Knox VI 128.
Two byshopes … bothe in longe gownes and typpettes, with hattes upon their heddes 1564 Cal. Sc. P. II 135.
[Edict by the Queen's authority, commanding all ministers to wear a certain habit different from their present apparel], as tippattis, corned cappis 1566 Bk. Univ. Kirk I 86.
Surp-claithes, cornett cap and tippet, has bein badges of idolaters in the verie act of thier idolatrie 1567 G. Ball. 195.
Preistis, cut ȝour gowne, Ȝour nukit bonet put away, And cut ȝour typpet in to tway 1633 Acts V 21/2.
The inferiour clergie … [wear] no tippets vnles they be doctours a1650 Row 30.
Tippet a1651 Calderwood VII 55.
The bishops were ordeaned to have their gownes with lumbard sleaves … with tippets and craips about their craigs 1663–6 Household Bks. Archb. Sharp MS 25b.
For a murneing tippett of thrie ellis and 3 halff quarteris of brodlove 1681 Misc. Maitl. C. III 120.
The arch bishops and bishops are to ride in their gowns and tipotts

c. transf. With reference to the hangman's rope. 1540 Lynd. Sat. 3984 (B).
Slip in thy heid in to this cord For thow had nevir ane metar tippat [Ch. tippit]