crêpe

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She did not give it up definitely, however, until she came upon a sixteen-yard remnant of soft gray China crêpe.

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  1. Crape.
  2. Crêpe de chine [F., ‘China crape’] a very thin, lustrous dress-silk.
  3. To curl; crimp; buckle; put up in curl-papers; frizz: as, to crêpe the hair.

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  • Clark thinks that the modern university, with its passion for research, prominent professors, and, yes, black crêpe, took shape in Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. —  The Chicago Blog
  • This comes from a misguided belief that anything you can put on a crêpe you can put on a pizza. —  Popular Posts Across MetaFilter
  • This is the first time there is not much of a line at the crêpe stand! —  paris breakfasts
  • There are plenty of alternatives to the famous crêpe Suzette (which is lightly fried in a mixture of melted butter, sugar, Grand Marnier, orange and lemon) across Europe: the British pancakes, the Polish nalesniki, the Italian soca, the Viennese Kaiserschmarrn, the clatita from the Carpathians, the German Pfannkuchen and the very Russian blinis, the Pandekager with Carlsberg beer or the Hungarian Palacsinta. —  cafebabel.com
  • By the way, it is flour which gives the crêpe evening of the Chandeleur its true meaning: initially flour symbolised the solar wheel, and it was eaten forty days after christmas as a gift to the gods who protected the wheat crop in the Celtic tradition. —  cafebabel.com
 

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  1. French: see crape.
  2. French crêper, < L. crispare, curl: see crêpe, n., crape, and crisp, v.
 

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