tippet
A shoulder covering, typically the fur of a fox, with long ends that dangle in front.
Drygoods shops did not have much that was Christmassy to display except red flannel and rabbit fur baby coats and muffs and tippets.
A stole worn by Anglican ministers or other clergymen.
[…] so this Iesuitical sect is descrired by their long [i]ackets, their course stockinges, their thicke cobled shoes, their long clokes with claspe vnder the chin, their sorbonical tippet […]
A piece of mail armor protecting the shoulders and neck; a camail.
historical
We are inclined to think this warrior wears his camail over the upper part of the surcoat, which would account for the sudden disappearance of the shield strap or guige when it reaches the mail tippet.
A length of twisted hair or gut in a fishing line.
obsolete
Where it comes from
From Middle English tippet, Old English tæppet, from Latin tapete (“cloth”).
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry tippet (CC BY-SA 4.0).