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crepe

[kreyp] / kreɪp /


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As ever, Zendaya stole the show with a floor-length Tamara Ralph champagne silk crepe gown with spider webby straps, matching the white carpet in Leicester Square.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

He couldn't get the Solein to work as an egg substitute in his carrot crepe.

From Salon Jan. 29, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 4, 2024

Floor-sweeping chiffon and crepe gowns had a timeless feel, without a nod to seasonal trends.

From Seattle Times Jan. 24, 2024

Mrs. Corcoran came down about twenty minutes later, in black crepe de chine, riffling through a quilted-leather clutch.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

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

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

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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