crêpy

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1. Resembling or similar to crêpe.

   My shirt was too big and its collar sat loosely around my crêpey neck.

   1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 477

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   Several years ago he began to point out that my throat was becoming crepy, my color was poor, and I was easily winded.

   1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 46

   women who had always worn a lot of make-up tended to continue to do so, blind to the unfortunate effect it could have on an elastic and crepy skin.

   2007, Diana Athill, “Somewhere Towards the End”, in Granta, 98, p. 18