Definition of nappes:
(n) :
(cooking) The ability of a sauce or other relatively thick liquid to coat food, the back of a spoon, etc.
(v) :
(cooking) To coat (a food) with liquid.
(n) :
The profile of a body of water flowing over an obstruction in a vertical drop.
(n) :
(mathematics) Either of the two parts of a double cone.
(n) :
(geology) A sheet-like mass of rock that has been folded over adjacent strata.
(n) :
(hydraulics) Geological nappe whose underside is not in contact with the overflow structure and is at ambient atmospheric pressure.