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crepe

[kreyp] / kreɪp /


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They’re kind of a cross between a crepe and a pancake, and they are indescribable.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 4, 2024

Boxty may even be grilled thin enough to stand in as a potato crepe wrapped around various fillings.

From Salon Mar. 16, 2024

The pink crepe blouse has a ruff-like collar and loose pleats to the front and was captured on film by royal photographer Lord Snowdon.

From BBC Dec. 18, 2023

On a sweltering morning in September, Auslander, wearing a white blouse and blue crepe pantsuit, led a tour of Meadow Ridge, where workers were surveying the parking lots for positioning the solar panels.

From Seattle Times Nov. 19, 2023

He looked down at me, confused, and I glared meaningfully at the crepe paper.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

The skin that covers them is creped and saggy.

From The Guardian Nov. 14, 2015

They creped their campus statue of Thomas Jefferson and inscribed it: "To the Memory of Jeffersonian Democracy and Religious Freedom in Virginia Died November 6, 1928."

From Time Magazine Archive

If the slab rubber be creped and air-dried on the spot, the product is of satisfactory appearance, except that it is of low colour and may be streaked.

From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Sidney Morgan

Our guide was pleased to introduce us to the late Mr. Charles Pease, as done in paraffin, with creped hair and bright, shiny glass eyes.

From Europe Revised by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

For this purpose the weighed sample is cut thin or creped thin, and exhaustively extracted with acetone to remove any “free” sulphur—that is, sulphur not in combination with the rubber.

From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Sidney Morgan

Thus, although the putrefaction bases are very easily soluble in water and acetone, they cannot be removed by washing on the creping rollers, or by acetone extraction.

From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Sidney Morgan

Example of this haue you in Terrence of the boasting souldiar, & creping smel feast.

From A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes by Herbert William Hildebrandt




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