Definitions

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  • adjective of skin Saggy and crinkly, like crepe paper.

Etymologies

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crepe +‎ -y

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Examples

  • Those crepey pink lids are growing fat and heavy over winter-water eyes.

    Shoot first Gill Hoffs 2011

  • Those crepey pink lids are growing fat and heavy over winter-water eyes.

    Shoot first Gill Hoffs 2011

  • There were skirts - but they were all polyester crepey things in startling colors, with art-deco prints.

    1990's Sewing Patterns 2009

  • Rojas nodded, but his crepey lids fluttered as he glanced away.

    Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010

  • He had dreamed of stroking that soft, crepey flesh under the arm.

    The seduction Siren of Brixton 2010

  • His lessons met at the same time as the Silver Slippers Water Aerobics class and the sight of all those veiny legs and sagging stomachs, those arms draped with crepey sheets of flesh, made him feel light-headed and loose in his joints.

    Boys and Girls Like You and Me Aryn Kyle 2010

  • With phenomenal cruelty, the tabloids both build up the young and lovely, and ritually humiliate them at the first sign of crepey thighs or sagging breasts.

    Great Regulars: Gerontophobia is a pandemic in the media. Rus Bowden 2010

  • His lessons met at the same time as the Silver Slippers Water Aerobics class and the sight of all those veiny legs and sagging stomachs, those arms draped with crepey sheets of flesh, made him feel light-headed and loose in his joints.

    Boys and Girls Like You and Me Aryn Kyle 2010

  • With phenomenal cruelty, the tabloids both build up the young and lovely, and ritually humiliate them at the first sign of crepey thighs or sagging breasts.

    Archive 2010-02-01 Rus Bowden 2010

  • His lessons met at the same time as the Silver Slippers Water Aerobics class and the sight of all those veiny legs and sagging stomachs, those arms draped with crepey sheets of flesh, made him feel light-headed and loose in his joints.

    Boys and Girls Like You and Me Aryn Kyle 2010

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