crimple
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See also: Crimple
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English crymplen, equivalent to crimp + -le (frequentative suffix).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɪmpəl
Verb[edit]
crimple (third-person singular simple present crimples, present participle crimpling, simple past and past participle crimpled)
- (archaic) to crumple, crimp
- 1894, Robert Smythe Hichens, The Green Carnation[1]:
- Esme assented with a graceful bend of his crimpled head, and in a clear and deliberate voice began to speak.
- 1862, James R. Gilmore, Among the Pines[2]:
- The boy had dwindled to a skeleton, and the skin lay on his face in crimpled folds, like a mask of black crape.