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 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
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
That prime dominion includes about 65 crape myrtle trees.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2023
He too looked down at the crape round his hat and replied—
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Or why should Memory, veiled with gloom, And like a sorrowing mourner craped, Sit weeping o'er an empty tomb, Whose captives have escaped?
From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation by Bliss Carman
Hanging his tall black hat, craped nearly to the crown, on a knob of the mahogany stand, he said huskily: "I DID think we'd seen the last of that," and opened the dining-room door.
From Beyond by John Galsworthy
This was well-known to his “fare” with the craped face.
From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid
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
Still more noticeable, perhaps, was the quiet, sallow looking man dressed in black, with black gloves and with black silk hat heavily craped and placed hollow-side-up on a chair.
From Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock
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
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
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
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
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