crepey
Americanadjective
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(especially of the skin) having a wrinkled surface.
crepey eyelids.
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like crepe or crepe paper.
a thin, crepey skirt.
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She may take a photo of the crepey skin on an arm, or a scar, and sometimes she layers those images with photo collages made from leaves or flowers.
From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2020
Nora Ephron is the go-to person for women with crepey necks.
From The Guardian • Aug. 20, 2019
Because technically, growing older isn’t a problem; Mother Nature has it in for us all, reducing us to shriveled frames and crepey arms en route, eventually, to dust.
From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2016
Bingo! $6,000, plus another $6,000 for laser removal when you hit late middle age and it’s gone all crepey and is no longer recognizable as a dragon but looks more like a squashed squirrel.
From Slate • Apr. 13, 2012
These days, Lourdes recognizes her husband’s face, his thinning reddish hair, and the crepey pouches under his eyes, but he is a stranger to her.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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