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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of crimple.

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Examples

  • "You couldn't notice any pæans," said Hugh, "but several fellows were trying to chant proposals to her besides uncle E. Ginger! but you ought to see E.vira now, Miss E.lalie; she's all dimply and pink, and her hair isn't slick, like it used to be, though it isn't messy, either; it's kind of crimpled up high, some way, like you'd raveled out a brown silk dress and piled up the ravelings.

    Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 Various

  • Otis Oddbody wore a black derby over crimpled yellow hair, a horizontally-striped black-and-white shirt, and red suspenders attached to red pantaloons that were tucked into oversized black shoes.

    Blood Lite II: Overbite Kevin J. Anderson 2010

  • UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I just didn't want him getting killed and crimpled up.

    CNN Transcript Mar 11, 2008 2008

  • It shares the grasp the spongy moss may take on the slippery surface, or when the root, thin as whipcord, of a certain fig-tree has crept across the face of the grey rock forming a ridge or barricade against which decayed vegetation accumulates, there the BAEA flourishes, displaying an indeterminate line of mauve flowers above oval, crimpled leaves.

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • The boy had dwindled to a skeleton, and the skin lay on his face in crimpled folds, like a mask of black crape.

    Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore

  • The life of a French bank note is said to average two or three years, and does not terminate until the condition is very shaky indeed -- crimpled, pierced with pinholes, corner creases torn, soft, tarnished, decrepit while yet young.

    Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. Various

  • The boy had dwindled to a skeleton, and the skin lay on his face in crimpled folds, like a mask of black crape.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • Tears of disappointment would come in spite of myself, as I crept away to hide the poor, crimpled manuscript in the depths of my trunk.

    The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career Lucy Maud 1917

  • The Harvester lifted the leaves and exposed the musky, crimpled, big mushrooms.

    The Harvester 1911

  • Esmé assented with a graceful bend of his crimpled head, and in a clear and deliberate voice began to speak.

    The Green Carnation Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

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