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  • noun Plural form of nape.

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Examples

  • I buried my face in my hands for a second and contemplated chlorinating my gene pool before wedging myself between the furry idiots and shaking them by the napes of their necks until they phased back to human.

    The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • They did not have the golden napes pictured in the bird books.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • I buried my face in my hands for a second and contemplated chlorinating my gene pool before wedging myself between the furry idiots and shaking them by the napes of their necks until they phased back to human.

    The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • They did not have the golden napes pictured in the bird books.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • They did not have the golden napes pictured in the bird books.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • They did not have the golden napes pictured in the bird books.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • Agion grabbed two of them by their wooly napes and battered their heads together, as though he were playing hairy horned cymbals.

    Virginity Sydney Kilgore 2010

  • The construction of a tunnel and an underground nuclear power center under the Gran Sasso Mountain has considerably reduced the karstic water reserves – drying up mountain springs, and sharply reducing the valley table napes - as well as provoking a considerable nuclear pollution problem.

    Appenine deciduous montane forests 2008

  • This has caused drying up of mountain springs, and a sharp reduction of the valley table napes, as well as provoking a considerable nuclear pollution problem.

    Italian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests 2008

  • Ferula grabbed each of them by the lock of wet hair at their napes and helped to pull them out with the experience she had acquired watching the birth of colts and calves at Yres Marias.

    page 123 meme Anxious Black Woman 2008

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