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Crinkle

noun
1.
A slight depression in the smoothness of a surface.  Synonyms: crease, furrow, line, seam, wrinkle.  "Ironing gets rid of most wrinkles"
verb
(past & past part. crinkled; pres. part. crinkling)
1.
Make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in.  Synonyms: crease, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle.  "Crease the paper like this to make a crane"
2.
Become wrinkled or crumpled or creased.  Synonyms: crease, crumple, rumple, wrinkle.



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"Crinkle" Quotes from Famous Books



... of much use to him, any more," said he, "for it's full of polliwogs an' fish eggs, an' the water has took all the crinkle out o' the straw an ruined it. I guess, Trot, that the best thing for us to do is to empty out all his body an' carry his head an' clothes along the road till we come to a field or a house where we ...
— The Scarecrow of Oz • L. Frank Baum
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... pole. He would be ready when the girl waved—for of course she would wave; he would show her that he had not forgotten. He could see just how the sparkle would come to her eyes, and just how the little fine lines of mischief would crinkle around her nose when she was ready to give that first wave. He could imagine that she would like to find him napping; that she would like to take him by surprise, and make him scurry around for his ...
— Just David • Eleanor H. Porter
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... are like the fall Of velvet snowflakes; like the touch of down The peach just brushes 'gainst the garden wall; The flossy fondlings of the thistle-wisp Caught in the crinkle of a leaf of brown The blighting frost hath turned from ...
— Riley Love-Lyrics • James Whitcomb Riley
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... was charming, this girl of a strange race so like his own. A skin from the velvet heart of a rose and eyes that looked deep into his and into his mind when he permitted; eyes, too, that could crinkle to ready laughter or grow misty when she sang those weird melodies of ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 • Various
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... land. I turned the dog in to settle a matter with my ain conscience, and John Knox would have done the same thing in the bonny face o' Queen Mary. What it is, is nae beesiness of yours. The dog was a sma' young terrier of the Highland breed, but with a drop to his ears and a crinkle in his frosty coat—no' just an ordinar' dog. I know him weel. He came to my place to be fed, near dead of hunger, then led me here. If his master lies in this kirkyard, I'll tak' the ...
— Greyfriars Bobby • Eleanor Atkinson
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