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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

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

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

And fresh tandoori pomfret and crepe suzette on their menu.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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 Morgan, Sidney

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

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 Earle, Alice Morse

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




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