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crepe

[kreyp] / kreɪp /


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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

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

From Seattle Times Jan. 24, 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

August and I sat in collapsible lawn chairs beside a crepe myrtle that kept dropping blossoms all over the ground.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

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

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

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

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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