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noun
Crinkle  n.  A winding or turn; wrinkle; sinuosity. "The crinkles in this glass, making objects appear double."



verb
Crinkle  v. t.  (past & past part. crinkled; pres. part. crinkling)  To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into inequalities or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl. "Her face all bowsy, Comely crinkled, Wondrously wrinkled." "The flames through all the casements pushing forth, Like red-not devils crinkled into snakes."



Crinkle  v. i.  To turn or wind; to run in and out in many short bends or turns; to curl; to run in waves; to wrinkle; also, to rustle, as stiff cloth when moved. "The green wheat crinkles like a lake." "And all the rooms Were full of crinkling silks."






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"Crinkle" Quotes from Famous Books



... smile that brought his mouth well across his face and made his eyes crinkle up, and then, disregarding their wishes with the utmost lightness of heart, he sat himself down, calmly letting them sleep on. He produced from an inside pocket a long stretch of fine, thin, but very strong ...
— The Eyes of the Woods - A story of the Ancient Wilderness • Joseph A. Altsheler

... torn by what she knows And sees within the eyes of others, Her doubts are when the daylight goes, Her fears are for the few she bothers. She tells them it is wholly wrong Of her to stay alive so long; And when she smiles her forehead shows A crinkle that had ...
— The Man Against the Sky • Edwin Arlington Robinson

... not that kind of a man. I know by the way his ears are set and the way his hair grows on his forehead and the way his eyes crinkle up at the corners as though he never missed a joke. People who never miss jokes don't go around thinking other persons are running after them all the time. I know by the way he looks out of his eyes. It isn't only his eyes that look at you but there is something behind ...
— The Comings of Cousin Ann • Emma Speed Sampson

... and nothing in sight that could possibly turn into a friend—except a little tuft of faded brown that out of the corner of my eye I detected zigzagging toward me in the direction from which we had come. A moment later I knew it really was a friend. "Crinkle," a mongrel dog that Fred bad adopted the day after our arrival, breasted the low rise, saw me, gave a yelp of ...
— The Ivory Trail • Talbot Mundy

... the "boys" of the old World staff, St. Clair McKelway, A.C. Wheeler ("Nym Crinkle"), T.E. Wilson, H.G. Crickmore, Montgomery Schuyler, E.C. Stedman, and others, will look back with a little sigh for the "old times," and for the generous recognition they received from one who was never at a loss for a subject, or for the treatment of a topic, ...
— Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly, "Jenny June" • Various


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