Read full poem →Wi' chokin dread;
An' Robin's bonnet wave wi' crape,
For Mailie dead.
Dictionary Entry
Mourning garments, especially an armband or hatband.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. crapemyrtle crapeveil crapemyrtles crapering craperound crapecrape blackcrape white
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Poetry examples for “crape”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Reject the Mechlin head, and gold brocade,
Go pray, in sober Norwich crape array'd.
Thy pendant diamonds let thy Fanny take,
Read full poem →“The regiments, marchings, throngs, hurrahs! What a host
I stirred—even when crape mufflings gagged me well-nigh dumb!”
Read full poem →With the pomp of the inloop’d flags with the cities draped in black,
With the show of the States themselves as of crape-veil’d women standing,
With processions long and winding and the flambeaus of the night,