(n.) A term applied to various articles, as: (a) A peculiar striped scarf worn by the pope at mass, and by eastern bishops. (b) A maniple.
Example Sentences:
(1) The continent is shaped like a gun, philosopher Frantz Fanon observed, and Congo is the trigger.
(2) (If this concept is confusing, I suggest reading Franz Fanon .)
(3) But Tehran's tech-savvy are far from Frantz Fanon 's lumpenproletariat.
(4) Frantz Fanon was born in Martinique, educated in France, and, after psychiatric training, administered a psychiatric hospital in Algeria.
(5) Fanon became a spokesman for third-world denizens of all nations by describing in sensitive, clinically astute terms the psychology of racism and its untoward effects upon oppressor and oppressed.
(6) In his book, The Wretched of the Earth, published in 1961 at the height of the triumphant years of the liberation of the countries of the continent from colonial rule, the great revolutionary and thinker Frantz Fanon observed about the raging political rhetoric of African unity: "We may understand why keen-witted international observers have hardly taken seriously the great flights of oratory about African unity, for it is true that there are so many cracks in that unity visible to the naked eye that it is only reasonable to insist that all these contradictions ought to be resolved before the day of unity can come."
(7) With Dr. Fanon's premature death at the age of 37 in 1961, the world was deprived of one of the most eloquent and skilled spokesmen for those who are oppressed by the pro-white, anti-black paranoia which is racism.
(8) It is as if Africa's proud history of liberation, from Patrice Lumumba to Nelson Mandela, is consigned to oblivion by a new master's black colonial elite – whose "historic mission", warned Frantz Fanon half a century ago, is the subjugation of their own people in the cause of "a capitalism rampant though camouflaged ".
(9) Still, she notes, it did not seem the kind of environment they could function in: “No one was saying we should move our headquarters to Pyongyang.” Bloom suggests that overall there was probably more interest in Mao’s Little Red Book and Frantz Fanon’s work.
Lappet
Definition:
(n.) A small decorative fold or flap, esp, of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress.
(v. t.) To decorate with, or as with, a lappet.
Example Sentences:
(1) The distal fibular physis also begins as a transverse structure that becomes undulated and has extensive peripheral lappet formation.
(2) However, as the tibia enlarges diametrically and the epiphyseal ossification center matures, the physis becomes increasingly undulated, with peripheral lappet formation.
(3) In D. dendriticum, however, no secreted layer exists between the inner bothrium surface and the host intestinal villi and the inner bothrium surface of this species appears to be lobed or lappet formed.
(4) C. eberhardi is a small species with primitive characters (cephalic papillae arranged in square, body not flattened dorso-ventrally and without internal lateral cuticular thickenings, tail with well developed median point and two tiny lateral lappets, one pair of distinctly precloacal papillae).
(5) The development of O. petersi, O. belemensis and O. spinosa is similar to that of O. bacillaris: the larvae are in the adipose tissue of various mosquitoes; the infective stages are characterized by the longitudinal salient ridges of the cuticule, the long tail ended by two lappets, the well-developed glandular oesophagus; the female genital anlage lies in the anterior half part of the body, but is not very far from the median line.
(6) The animal cargo, worth $113,715, reportedly included: two lappet-faced vultures, two serval cats, two impalas, two black verreaux’s eagles, three elands, four giraffes, four ground hornbill, five spring hares, six oryx, seven kori bustard, 10 dik-dik, 20 Grant’s gazelle, 68 Thomson’s gazelle, and a secretary bird.
(7) sp., fourth species of the genus, is frequent and associated with the morphologically similar species, D. gracile (Rud., 1809); D. robini differs from D. gracile by structure of caudal lappets of female, vagina, microfilaria and area rugosa.
(8) n. The new genus is differentiated from Mathevotaenia, Markewitchitaenia and Atriotaenia by being craspedote, possessing a large seminal receptacle, the presence of a hermaphroditic canal leading into the genital atrium, and by having two opposable, muscular lappets on the anterior margin of each sucker.
(9) Parasitic third-stage larvae had the 6 internal labial papillae on small elevations without lappets around a small mouth; large, oval amphidial pits; ribbonlike lateral alae for most of their length, but with the anterior 30-40 microns of the alae cordlike; and phasmidial apertures on the body cuticle ventral to the lateral alae.
(10) Infective larvae (cuticle of the second stage) had the 6 internal labial papillae on prominent bluntly rectangular lappets in a star-shaped arrangement around a large triradiate mouth, small triangular or round amphidial pits, flattened ribbonlike lateral alae, and phasmidial apertures opening on the ventral surface of the lateral alae.