(n.) A thin, crimped stuff, made of raw silk gummed and twisted on the mill. Black crape is much used for mourning garments, also for the dress of some clergymen.
(n.) To form into ringlets; to curl; to crimp; to friz; as, to crape the hair; to crape silk.
Example Sentences:
(1) Normal esophageal epithelium is stained brown or dark brown with 5% of Lugol's solution, and shows a "silk-crape" like surface appearance when observed close up.
(2) I checked the calendar periodically to see at what points it was appropriate to exchange black crape for bombazine, at what date the black ribbon should be taken down from the house’s front door, and how long as a male member of the family would it be appropriate to wear a black armband or hat band, a signal to the world that says: “Be kind to me.
Trape
Definition:
(v. i.) To walk or run about in an idle or slatternly manner; to traipse.
Example Sentences:
(1) In these cases the aneurysm has been traped by ligation of the internal carotid artery in the neck and its supraclinoid course and at the same time and extracranial intracranial anastomosis performed.
(2) Case report about a 53 year old man, suffering from sudden suffocation, caused by inflammatory laryngeal edema following a foreign body traping in the esophagus with consecutive abscess and phlegmona of the esophageal wall.