crepe
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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
In Oakland, strikers who had “killed” a locomotive covered it in black crepe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025
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
The sauce opens the richness of a pho broth or adds a blast of heat to a banh xeo, a Vietnamese crepe.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
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
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
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
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
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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