crevice
[krev-is]
- a crack forming an opening; cleft; rift; fissure.
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Origin of crevice
1300–50; Middle English crevace < Anglo-French, Old French, equivalent to crev(er) to crack (< Latin crepāre) + -ace noun suffix
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Contemporary Examples
We will pull back the onion and explore every crack and crevice.
If I Can Dream pushes the ties of interactivity at the molecular level into every crevice of its stars' lives.
I plucked them from the crevice, hoping not to find a bent temple.
Historical Examples
There is only the risk; the crevice to be covered is not a yard long.
My Double LifeSarah Bernhardt
But it struck the crevice fairly, and they heard it rattle on inside.
Two Thousand Miles BelowCharles Willard Diffin
She cried from the crevice where she lay huddled, "Never, never!"
Tales of UnrestJoseph Conrad
The inner end of the pole she wedged in a crevice of the split rock.
Out of the DepthsRobert Ames Bennet
Before it could stop the pressure of the herd drove it into the crevice.
crevice
- a narrow fissure or crack; split; cleft
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Word Origin
C14: from Old French crevace, from crever to burst, from Latin crepāre to crack
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Word Origin and History for crevice
n.
mid-14c., from Old French crevace (12c., Modern French crevasse) "gap, rift, crack" (also, vulgarly, "the female pudenda"), from Vulgar Latin *crepacia, from Latin crepare "to crack, creak;" meaning shifted from the sound of breaking to the resulting fissure.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
crevice
(krĕv′ĭs)- A narrow crack, fissure, or cleft.
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