- a variation of crepe.
crape
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noun
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a variant spelling of crepe
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crepe, esp when used for mourning clothes
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a band of black crepe worn in mourning
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Calvin turned on East Las Flores Drive, threading under the canopy of crape myrtles, pines and deodar cedars, and pulled up to his Midcentury ranch home and ran next door to check on his mom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
And don’t replace them with something like crape myrtle, which is pretty but doesn’t offer much shade for the space it takes up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
Tree varieties include Eureka lemon, pink guava, Golden Delicious apple, coast live oak, olive, crape myrtle, California sycamore, desert willow and torrey pines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2024
Jacob Hender said he first started noticing the crape myrtle bark scale about two years ago in the Northern Virginia suburb where he lives.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2023
And where there had once been a bit of road, a shriveled crape myrtle tree, and a slightly wonky-shaped mailbox...now there was a panel of light.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
She presented that mixture of false glitter and brilliant fabrics, of silken gauze and craped hair, of vivacity, calmness, and motion which goes by the term of the Je ne sais quoi.
From Beatrix by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Another detachment of Infantry, with muffled and craped drums, close the procession: as soon as they are off— Scene draws and discovers the distant view of the Encampment.
From André by Montrose Jonas Moses
There’s jest a chance that I know whar them craped gentlemen air at this very minute—jest a chance of thar bein’ thar.”
From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Mayne Reid
The blinds of the avenue passed and number nine with its craped knocker, door ajar.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
When the news came there was deep thankfulness; but it was solemn and shadowed from the sorrow that craped the victory.
From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by T. C. DeLeon
The hour advanced on the Wednesdays and Saturdays is for curling and craping the hair, which it now requires twice a week.
From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney
There are those whom she makes with soft and smooth locks, and with whom crinkling and craping is only a sham.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 by Various
Ten on 'em crossed the water down yonder," said Gwenny, putting her hand to her mouth, and seeming to regard it as good news rather than otherwise; "be arl craping up by the hedgerow now.
From The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 December, 1906. by Paul M. (Paul Martin) Pearson
An' away he wint, over the hill, an' came craping shly and soft through the woods to where the little rid hin lived in her shnug bit iv a house.
From Faith Gartney's Girlhood by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
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