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
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
They also claimed the crape myrtles would provide similar amounts of shade and noise reduction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2023
That prime dominion includes about 65 crape myrtle trees.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2023
Because of the tall crape myrtles and elms standing outside the windows, the light that filtered into the Hall of the Gods always looked a little muted.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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 Leacock, Stephen
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 DeLeon, T. C.
I knew the house, which was in a small uptown street, by its closed windows and the craped bell, which I shuddered as I touched.
From The Autobiography of a Quack and the Case of George Dedlow by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)
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 Browne, Francis F. (Francis Fisher)
The blinds of the avenue passed and number nine with its craped knocker, door ajar.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
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 Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)
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 Burney, Fanny
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 Pearson, Paul M. (Paul Martin)
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