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
He couldn't get the Solein to work as an egg substitute in his carrot crepe.
From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2025
The way it just builds layer upon layer, much like the little taco that evolves into a commemorative tote bag containing a deep-fried blueberry pancake, Chicago-style pizza, French crepe, corn and flour tortilla taco.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2024
“Isn’t that wild? It’s better than all of that tacky crepe paper. I did buy some crepe paper, but nothing that I could do with it satisfied me.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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
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
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
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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