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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

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

On a sweltering morning in September, Auslander, wearing a white blouse and blue crepe pantsuit, led a tour of Meadow Ridge, where workers were surveying the parking lots for positioning the solar panels.

From Seattle Times Nov. 19, 2023

She did not want the shades drawn or black funeral crepe to be hung.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

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

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 Ginther, Pemberton

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)

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

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

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




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