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Recent Examples of tippet
Understanding tippet weight and learning knots can be overwhelming.
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Francesca Krempa,
Outside,
23 Dec. 2025
Line class, tippet class, and length records for Florida-strain fish will still be eligible for records in the largemouth bass category.
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Sage Marshall,
Field & Stream,
19 June 2024
The second reason for tippets is to accommodate different sizes of flies.
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Idaho Statesman,
31 Jan. 2024
Ben Christensen hooked the 31.55-pound catfish while casting an olive-colored creek damsel fly on 12-pound tippet with a 4-weight rod in the Pedernales River.
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Pete Thomas,
USA TODAY,
21 Oct. 2021
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Francesca Krempa,
Outside,
23 Dec. 2025
Line class, tippet class, and length records for Florida-strain fish will still be eligible for records in the largemouth bass category.
—
Sage Marshall,
Field & Stream,
19 June 2024
The second reason for tippets is to accommodate different sizes of flies.
—
Idaho Statesman,
31 Jan. 2024
Ben Christensen hooked the 31.55-pound catfish while casting an olive-colored creek damsel fly on 12-pound tippet with a 4-weight rod in the Pedernales River.
—
Pete Thomas,
USA TODAY,
21 Oct. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tippet
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Rather than betray alienation, her surviving correspondence—mostly to Cassandra—talks of fabrics, caps and pelisses (a type of woman’s cloak)
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One of the hallmarks of its origins is a tile work from 1928 by Ernest Batcheler, an American artist of Dutch descent, that portrays a Spanish woman wearing a pink traditional Sevilla dress with frills, a shawl with fringe and a headpiece known as a mantilla.
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Charlene donned a white dress underneath a matching coat, along with a mantilla, a lace veil that is traditionally worn by women in the Catholic Church.
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One was even wearing a crown and cape like a king.
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Revellers in Knicks capes pleaded their cases fruitlessly.
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The resident Manta Trust team has catalogued 150 individual rays and uses the world's first underwater contactless ultrasound scanner to check on pregnant mantas, while the Olive Ridley Project leads turtle research across Laamu Atoll.
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Watching a documentary about mantas, reef sharks, or this area is one thing.
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Maybe a small, packable rain jacket or poncho, but that’s about it.
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Okay, Woody really does have that poncho on.
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The palatine tonsils are the ones seen at the back of the throat.
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During the Thirty Years’ War, military enterprisers included such figures as Ernst von Mansfeld, who raised an army for the elector palatine, and Albrecht von Wallenstein, who offered his services to Ferdinand II, the Holy Roman emperor.
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For her label Anissa Aida, designer Anissa Meddeb, who lives in the capital, makes gossamer silk blouses evoking the striped motif of handwoven fouta towels and voluminous coats inspired by the burnoose cloaks worn by Berbers.
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On a rainy day men wore winter-weight burnooses with the large hoods drawn up—enigmatic Jedi-like figures in the medina's alleyways.
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Wear it over jeans or a coat for a waist-defining moment; knotted over your shoulder as a capelet, or loose for undone elegance.
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Alternatively, consider adding drama to your look with a capelet, a major trend among New York Fashion Week attendees.
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“Tippet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tippet. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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