Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In sculpture, the reverse of relief; intaglio. To engrave en creux is to cut below the surface.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Used in English only in the expression
en creux . Thus, engravingen creux is engraving in intaglio, or by sinking or hollowing out the design.
Examples
“Back to this poor little “objet inanimé” lost in “le creux de ta main” (the palm of your hand).”
“Back to this poor little “objet inanimé” lost in “le creux de ta main” the palm of your hand.”
“Il y a des pays où les gens aux creux du lit font des rêves”
“Ce matin je me reveille et ma levre superieure jusqu'a mon nez, l'interieur du nez et le creux des yeux etaient touchés ....”
“Je ne mange pas enormement mais bon au moins si j'ai un petit creux maintenant j'ai de quoi faire.”
“Ce qui etait bien drole c'etait passer ma langue sur le creux fait dans la racine de ma dent (pour passer la vis qui tiendra ma nouvelle dent) ...”
“At around a quarter to six the other night I had un petit creux.”
“C'est bien de prevenir mais c'est bien de finir sa frase a ce mot il m'appuie dans le creux de l'aisselle et la je hurle un truc!”
“Et un persou a l'arcade quand on l'enleve c pas beau a voir avis aux amateurs! si vous n'avez pas le couraege d'assumer deux creux rouge ca sert a rien d'en faire un!!”
“Mais avoir mal partout ca m'prouve que meme si j'ai des creux glandouille j'ai bossé a m'en etirer les muscles et m'en dechirer la peau!!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘creux’.
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Phonestheme: CR- (or KR-)
Grateful credit to pterodactyl and http://reocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9783/phond1.html.
crook, crack, crane, cremains, cranberries, crimp, crow, crunch, crash, creak, croak, cronk and 94 more...
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Spam
Spam email often comes up with linguistic oddities. Here they are: pseudo-words, dopey phrases, spammer names and the like.
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Tweets
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bilby "He struggled in of bharata's race, a sharp broadheaded arrow, it was for the creux. She turned and sped across he also created the sky, the heavens, the nether at the unfortunate kaviak, seized with a fresh heart. The fashionable world expels every suffering necessary members for putting the former, with at caribou."
- spam. Jul 7, 2008