crape : Idioms & Phrases

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canton crape

Can"ton crape"
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  1. A soft, white or colored silk fabric, of a gauzy texture and wavy appearance, used for ladies' scarfs, shawls, bonnet trimmings, etc.; -- called also Oriental crape. De Colange.
Webster 1913

crape fern

  • noun New Zealand with pinnate fronds and a densely woolly stalks; sometimes included in genus Todea
    Leptopteris superba; Prince-of-Wales plume; Todea superba; Prince-of-Wales fern; Prince-of-Wales feather.
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crape jasmine

  • noun tropical shrub having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal flowers with crimped or wavy corollas; northern India to Thailand
    coffee rose; crepe jasmine; East Indian rosebay; crepe gardenia; Nero's crown; Tabernaemontana divaricate; pinwheel flower; Adam's apple.
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Crape myrtle

  • noun ornamental shrub from eastern India commonly planted in the southern United States
    Lagerstroemia indica; crepe myrtle; crepe flower.
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  • (Bot.), a very ornamental shrub (Lagerströmia Indica) from the East Indies, often planted in the Southern United States. Its foliage is like that of the myrtle, and the flower has wavy crisped petals.
Webster 1913

Oriental crape

  • . See Canton crape.
Webster 1913

queen's crape myrtle

  • noun native to Asia, Australia, and East Indies, where it provides timber called pyinma; used elsewhere as an ornamental for its large showy flowers
    pride-of-India; Lagerstroemia speciosa.
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