turntippet

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turn +‎ tippet

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turntippet (plural turntippets)

  1. (obsolete) A traitor; a defector; a renegade.
    • c. 1556, Thomas Cranmer, A Confution of Unwritten Verities; republished in The Works of Thomas Cranmer‎[1], volume 2, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1846, page 15:
      The priests, for the most part, were doublefaced, turntippets, and flatterers

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