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
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
They also claimed the crape myrtles would provide similar amounts of shade and noise reduction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2023
Experts who have studied the spread say that, in towns and metropolitan areas, infestation rates can reach 80 to 100 percent of crape myrtle trees.
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
The blinds of the avenue passed and number nine with its craped knocker, door ajar.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
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 Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
This was well-known to his “fare” with the craped face.
From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne
Another detachment of Infantry, with muffled and craped drums, close the procession: as soon as they are off— Scene draws and discovers the distant view of the Encampment.
From André by Moses, Montrose Jonas
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 Galsworthy, John
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)
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)
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
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