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The phrase "a flap of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a physical movement or action, often related to something that is flapping, such as a bird's wing or a piece of fabric.
Example: "The bird took off, its wings creating a loud flap of sound as it soared into the sky."
Alternatives: "a wave of" or "a flutter of".
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Male penguins incubate their eggs on the feet, under a flap of skin.
Her index finger dangled by a flap of skin, the bone cut clean through.
Hemmings then signalled, with a flap of his hand, for Fraser to move, just-so, finer at deep third-man.
Shiver as Walken takes "a flap of skin" and, with a toothpick, "kind of seal[s] it shut".
He put his pinkie in the hole and observed that a flap of canvas had been pushed back.
In the art of the novel; in the novel's infinity of plasticity and elasticity; in a flap of imaginary wallpaper.
Team doctors removed a flap of cartilage and there was some concern that Jeffers might miss the season opener.
A flap of torn skin hung from his bloody right hand.
Clyde appears regularly, a big fleshy man with a flap of dark hair and round cheeks and a barrel chest.
In a number of Neotropical frogs, the male carries the eggs under a flap of skin on its back.
Pictures of the airplane show that a flap of the aircraft's skin near the overhead baggage compartments was peeled back.
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