Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
crespine. Planché .
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Examples
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ELLEN BLOOM: _ (In pantomime dame's stringed mobcap, widow Twankey's crinoline and bustle, blouse with muttonleg sleeves buttoned behind, grey mittens and cameo brooch, her plaited hair in a crispine net, appears over the staircase banisters, a slanted candlestick in her hand, and cries out in shrill alarm) _ O blessed Redeemer, what have they done to him!
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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