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
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
The King - standing on the left - is wearing a grey suit and blue tie with his right hand tucked into his pocket, while the Queen wears a blue wool crepe dress.
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2024
Floor-sweeping chiffon and crepe gowns had a timeless feel, without a nod to seasonal trends.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
But I had stitched her crepe wool hair back down and tied the bright scarf back in place, and she was good as new.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
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
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 Morgan, Sidney
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 Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
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 Morgan, Sidney
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 Morgan, Sidney
Example of this haue you in Terrence of the boasting souldiar, & creping smel feast.
From A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes by Hildebrandt, Herbert William
Vocabulary lists containing crepe
World Cuisine - Introductory
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