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
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
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
Ronan seems so calm, but he grunts as he sends the crepe into the air.
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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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
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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
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
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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