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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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
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
The crape myrtle bark scale has crept into the D.C. region in recent years.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2023
And where there had once been a bit of road, a shriveled crape myrtle tree, and a slightly wonky-shaped mailbox...now there was a panel of light.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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
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 blinds of the avenue passed and number nine with its craped knocker, door ajar.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
When her father dies, she stands "long and craped," with a "black elbow" resting on the chimney-place; while her various methods of blushing take up half the volume.
From Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 by Various
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 S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
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
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
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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