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crimped, ppl. a.|krɪmpt|
Also crimpt.
†1. Curled: see crimp v.1 2. Obs.
2. Compressed or folded into minute parallel ridges or plaits, frilled.
1712[see crimp v.1 3]. 1792Minstrel (1793) II. 172 Her crimpt lips relaxed to something like a smile. 1809N. Pinkney Trav. France 38 Madame in a high crimped cap. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xxi. 147 Many cells had also crimped borders. 1871― Fragm. Sc. (1879) I. vii. 238 The edge of the cataract is crimped by indentations. 1886Sheldon tr. Flaubert's Salammbô 44 Gold spangles glittered in the crimped hair.
3. Of fish; see crimp v.1 4.
1791Huddesford Salmag. (1793) 145 Crimpt cod, and mutilated mackarel. 1798Canning, etc. Progress of Man 28 in Anti-Jacobin 19 Feb., Cools the crimpt cod. 1804A. Carlisle in Phil. Trans. XCV. 23 The specific gravity of the crimped fish was greater than that of the dead fish. |