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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Through intermediaries, she got Park’s feedback on what he wanted changed — for instance, he insisted that the tree bark be smooth, a distinctive characteristic of crape myrtles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025
That’s the sound of shade tree advocates unhappy that I’m mentioning crape myrtles in this list.
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
While their leafy cousins parade their fabulous colors this month, the future for crape myrtles across the region — and beyond — is decidedly gray.
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
Swift upon his first wire a second flashed: and one of those craped days of the tragedies of commerce followed, the boding, the loss, flashed everywhere, pervading Europe and America.
From The Lord of the Sea by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel
The head of the craped marauder was projected cautiously round the door, as if to listen.
From Successful Recitations by Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles
Twice a week her majesty's hair was curled and craped; and this operation appears to have added a full hour to the business of the toilette.
From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney
This was well-known to his “fare” with the craped face.
From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid
These bein’ craped, shows they’re a lot from the town.”
From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Mayne Reid
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
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
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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