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
In Oakland, strikers who had “killed” a locomotive covered it in black crepe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025
Boxty may even be grilled thin enough to stand in as a potato crepe wrapped around various fillings.
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 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
The abundant crepe myrtles and pink bougainvilleas that dotted the courtyard were also as beautiful and lively as I recalled.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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
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
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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