- 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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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
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
“It’s disgusting,” said Steve Donnelly, who lives in North Arlington with his wife and three children and had three sickly crape myrtles in his yard.
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
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
These bein’ craped, shows they’re a lot from the town.”
From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Mayne Reid
The heavily craped train, its sombre engine swathed in black, moved through the land like an eclipse.
From The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him by Francis F. (Francis Fisher) Browne
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
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
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
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