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Definition of Craping
1. crape [v] - See also: crape
Literary usage of Craping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Textile Fibres: Their Physical, Microscopical and Chemical Properties by Joseph Merritt Matthews (1907)
"This action of concentrated acids on silk has been utilized for the craping of
silk fabrics, the acid being allowed to act only on certain parts of the ..."
2. Stemmata Latinitatis: Or, An Etymological Latin Dictionary: Wherein the by Nicholas Salmon (1796)
"... filed a/craping round about kind of bard pitch beat to powder, and put into
medicines ... a/craping or ¡having /craped, peeled, ..."
3. The Plough, the Loom, and the Anvil (1856)
"When fabrics have been woven according to this invention, they may be bleached,
dyed, or printed in the ordinary manner, and the uneven surface craping or ..."
4. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Appleton, firm, publishers, New York (1878)
"craping machines are generally used for effecting a continued washing, boiling,
and rinsing of woolen or half-woolen stuffs in an alkaline solution, ..."
5. Dictionary of Textiles by Louis Harmuth (1915)
"See also craping. Crinkle Fabrics—'Light or medium weight wash fabrics, ...
Crinkling—See craping. Crinol in—-Sheer fabric, made of cotton warp and ..."
6. The Textile Fibres: Their Physical, Microscopical and Chemical Properties by Joseph Merritt Matthews (1907)
"This action of concentrated acids on silk has been utilized for the craping of
silk fabrics, the acid being allowed to act only on certain parts of the ..."
7. Stemmata Latinitatis: Or, An Etymological Latin Dictionary: Wherein the by Nicholas Salmon (1796)
"... filed a/craping round about kind of bard pitch beat to powder, and put into
medicines ... a/craping or ¡having /craped, peeled, ..."
8. The Plough, the Loom, and the Anvil (1856)
"When fabrics have been woven according to this invention, they may be bleached,
dyed, or printed in the ordinary manner, and the uneven surface craping or ..."
9. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Appleton, firm, publishers, New York (1878)
"craping machines are generally used for effecting a continued washing, boiling,
and rinsing of woolen or half-woolen stuffs in an alkaline solution, ..."
10. Dictionary of Textiles by Louis Harmuth (1915)
"See also craping. Crinkle Fabrics—'Light or medium weight wash fabrics, ...
Crinkling—See craping. Crinol in—-Sheer fabric, made of cotton warp and ..."
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