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crimpy

[krim-pee] / ˈkrɪm pi /


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She has a knot of soft, crimpy, brown hair with a thread of gray in it, a sunny face with rosy cheeks, and big, kind eyes as blue as forget-me-nots.

From Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

It pleased him almost to childishness to find how easily he could listen and even talk to the oiled and crimpy little barber, and to the pretty, consumptive-looking, print-dressed baker's wife.

From The Return by Walter De la Mare

Little pie with crimpy crust, Set it in the sun; Sugar it with powdered dust, And bake it till it's done.

From Child Songs of Cheer by Antoinette Inglis

Anxiety showed itself nakedly in his yellow-brown eyes, and there were wrinkles in his low forehead just below the crimpy hair.

From Bella Donna A Novel by Robert Smythe Hichens

Then I met little Kit Seymour, a girl from the south, who had reddish hair, all crimpy, and spoke soft, soft English as if she were breathing what she said at you.

From Deep Moat Grange by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett




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