Lapp

UK
/læp/
US
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Lappadjective
UK
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US
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Used attributively to describe things relating to the Sámi people (e.g. ‘Lapp boots’).
Définitions
Relating to the Sámi people, their culture, or their languages.
Traditional Lapp costumes are brightly coloured and trimmed with reindeer fur.
Lappproper noun
Surname and occasional place-name.
Définitions
A surname.
Gene Lapp played professional baseball in the 1940s.
Synonymes
Sami people
Sámi people
Lappnoun
Définitions
(dated, sometimes considered offensive) A member of the indigenous Sámi people inhabiting the northern regions of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the Kola Peninsula of Russia.
The term "Lapp" was once commonly used to refer to the Sámi, but it is now regarded as outdated.