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  • Between these two rings and the ball is another and fainter one not shown on the photograph, which is transparent and is known as the Crape Ring.

    Photographing the Sky 1920

  • One of their chief Mant aduries is Crape, which is in all refpea. the be (i I ever raw.

    Dr. Burnet's travels : or Letters containing an account of what seemed most remarkable in Switzerland, Italy, France, and Germany, &c. 1687

  • Crape was a thin transparent gauze-like plain woven fabric, without any twill, consisting of highly twisted raw silk, mechanically embossed with a minutely wrinkled surface.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • Crape was a thin transparent gauze-like plain woven fabric, without any twill, consisting of highly twisted raw silk, mechanically embossed with a minutely wrinkled surface.

    Mrs. Hume 2009

  • This winter as I was finishing THE PRICE (a very, very, VERY dark story) I had a total meltdown about Michael pruning the Crape Myrtle trees in the front yard.

    writer brain 2007

  • Crape myrtles and azaleas bloomed right on time, and farmers watched the first green sprouts of their early wheat plantings burst from the soil, only to lose their crops to a killing frost.

    Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder Ann Rule 2008

  • Crape, keys, centre – bits, darkies — nothing forgotten?’ inquired Toby: fastening a small crowbar to a loop inside the skirt of his coat.

    Oliver Twist 2007

  • Occasionally one of these specialists would leave the circlet and go to one of the desks which were scattered over most of the rest of the sloping floor, increasingly thinly, like a Crape ring, to confer there with the desk's occupant.

    A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953

  • Occasionally one of these specialists would leave the circlet and go to one of the desks which were scattered over most of the rest of the sloping floor, increasingly thinly, like a Crape ring, to confer there with the desk's occupant.

    A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953

  • Crape is the quality of goods most closely allied with mourning.

    The Etiquette of To-day Edith B. Ordway

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