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crepy

British  
/ ˈkreɪpɪ /

adjective

  1. (esp of the skin) having a dry wrinkled appearance like crepe

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Companies are replacing the old jar of cold cream with complete product lines to firm crepy necks, nourish the skin and control trouble spots.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was clad in a gown that any shepherdess among them might have envied, a pale yellow crepy thing shot through with gleams of gold.

From Daphne, an autumn pastoral by Margaret Pollock Sherwood

You could tell that by the backs of his hands; they weren't wrinkled or crepy and the veins didn't protrude.

From Four-Day Planet by H. Beam Piper

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