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  • adjective Resembling crape.

Etymologies

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crape +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Without death, which is our crapelike churchyardy word for change, for growth, there could be no prolongation of that which we call life.

    Life of Robert Browning Sharp, William, 1855-1905 1897

  • Without death, which is our crapelike churchyardy word for change, for growth, there could be no prolongation of that which we call life.

    Life of Robert Browning William Sharp 1880

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