crepe
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Instead the RHS is considering trees that enjoy hotter and wetter weather, like the American river birch or crepe myrtle, or plants with deeper roots to tolerate drought like yarrow or bird’s foot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
The batter is more liquid than solid, like crepe batter, while apple butter is dense, so resist the urge to get fancy.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2025
But in New York I did remodeling, so I’d do things like turn a crepe shop into a hair salon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2025
One example was an elegant, long black crepe wrap dress, which, while stylish, seemed incongruous in the display as a whole.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 22, 2024
The abundant crepe myrtles and pink bougainvilleas that dotted the courtyard were also as beautiful and lively as I recalled.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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
His hair in front was well loaded with pomatum, frizzled or creped, and powdered; the ear locks had undergone the same process.
From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Alice Morse Earle
I had a cousin who was an actor and I saw him put on a beautiful beard with spirit-gum and creped hair once.
From Miss Pat at School by Pemberton Ginther
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
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
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