creese
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The creese is more than a sword to the Javanese; it is a sacred symbol, and if it is drawn rashly and without preliminary invocations, Javanese believe that misfortune overtakes the rash drawer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Colonel Ishimoto, without asking permission, drew out the creese and waved it about.
From Time Magazine Archive
I saw a Malay creese on the mantel-piece and hid it behind a picture-frame.
From Peter Ibbetson by Du Maurier, George
With a keen-edged creese he cut the Flag loose, hurling it down to the ground.
From Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines or, Following the Flag against the Moros by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
"But—well, you have no creese, and you are not wild, nor—nor fierce, nor cruel."
From Nautilus by Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe
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