crape
Americannoun
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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Rather than basing the one-sheet around Lee Byung Hun’s scheming, murderous Man-su, she emphasized a blooming crape myrtle tree, a reference to the protagonist’s garden.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 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
And while crape myrtles are lovely to behold and require little water once they’re established, they don’t provide much in the way of shade, a problem when you’re trying to reduce urban heat levels.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2025
Thomas Spencer, the owner of the Heart of Wood Tree Service in Arlington, says calls about crape myrtles with the scale are coming in a lot more often.
From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2023
One day a few years earlier, brilliant pink blossoms bloomed on the crape myrtle that Connie had planted in our yard.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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