Word: craped
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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LOST, a black crape bag containing gold spectacles, gloves, etc. Finder will oblige by leaving at 18 Stoughton...
LOST, a black crape bag containing gold spectacles, gloves, etc. Finder will oblige by leaving at 18 Stoughton...
...sophomore and freshman classes at Yale wear a piece of black crape in their button-holes as a token of mourning for the death of Watkinson...
...whitewashed her foot-ball team, and now the same team has been defeated by Yale by a score of 29 to 4. If this sort of thing keeps up, Harvard's eminence as an educational power will be gone and she will be obliged to hang several yards of crape on her front door. - Baltimore American...
...Monday evening, with students in their most ragged attire and with spectators. But erelong the sound of a drum was heard, and soon a procession appeared, at the head of which was a drum-major or grand marshal with a huge bearskin cap and baton, accompanied by assistants with craped staff and torches, and followed by two bass-drummers (students beating muffled drums); the elegist or chaplain, with his Oxford cap and black gown, and brows and cheeks crocked so as to appear as if wearing huge goggles; four spade-bearers; six pall bearers with a six foot coffin...