Definition of Creping

1. crepe [v] - See also: crepe

Lexicographical Neighbors of Creping

crepe jasmine
crepe marocain
crepe myrtle
crepe paper
crepe rubber
creped
crepelike
creperie
creperies
crepes
crepey
crepidoma
crepidomas
crepier
crepiest
creping (current term)
crepitant
crepitant rale
crepitate
crepitated
crepitates
crepitating
crepitation
crepitation rale
crepitations
crepitous
crepitus
creplach
crepon
crepons

Literary usage of Creping

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1916)
"The following conclusions were drawn: The effect of creping on rubber is negligible, both as regards optimum mechanical properties and rate of cure, ..."

2. Plantation Rubber and the Testing of Rubber by George Stafford Whitby (1920)
"For this purpose the rubber is creped on mills similar to but in factory practice larger than those used for creping the wet coagulum on the plantation. ..."

3. The Camden Miscellany by Royal Historical Society (Great Britain), Camden Society (Great Britain) (1895)
"... neuer ceaseth creping and infecting on part & member after another, ... this fretting and creping canker ys, when yt doth once possesse the heade ..."

4. A Svrvay of London: Contayning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne by John Stow (1890)
"This Merchant Tailors' Hall, sometime pertaining to a worshipful gentleman named Edmond creping, (Dominus creping after some record), he in the year of ..."

5. The Textile Fibres: Their Physical, Microscopical and Chemical Properties by Joseph Merritt Matthews (1913)
"This action of concentrated acids on silk has been utilized for the creping of silk fabrics, the acid being allowed to act only on certain parts of the ..."

6. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1916)
"The following conclusions were drawn: The effect of creping on rubber is negligible, both as regards optimum mechanical properties and rate of cure, ..."

7. Plantation Rubber and the Testing of Rubber by George Stafford Whitby (1920)
"For this purpose the rubber is creped on mills similar to but in factory practice larger than those used for creping the wet coagulum on the plantation. ..."

8. The Camden Miscellany by Royal Historical Society (Great Britain), Camden Society (Great Britain) (1895)
"... neuer ceaseth creping and infecting on part & member after another, ... this fretting and creping canker ys, when yt doth once possesse the heade ..."

9. A Svrvay of London: Contayning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne by John Stow (1890)
"This Merchant Tailors' Hall, sometime pertaining to a worshipful gentleman named Edmond creping, (Dominus creping after some record), he in the year of ..."

10. The Textile Fibres: Their Physical, Microscopical and Chemical Properties by Joseph Merritt Matthews (1913)
"This action of concentrated acids on silk has been utilized for the creping of silk fabrics, the acid being allowed to act only on certain parts of the ..."

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