crimpled, ppl. a.
(ˈkrɪmp(ə)ld)
[f. crimple v. + -ed1.]
Wrinkled, crinkled, curled; finely crumpled; minutely wrinkled or creased.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 103 Crympled, or rympled, rugatus. 1562 Turner Herbal ii. 36 a, Lyke vnto a lefe of the crympled lettuce. 1578 Lyte Dodoens iii. lxx. 411 Liuer⁓wort..hauing wrinckled or crimpled leaues layde one vpon another. 1846 Dana Zooph. (1848) 170 The under surface of the corallum is crimpled and striate. 1882 Garden 29 July 85/3 Blossoms..exquisitely fringed and crimpled at the margins. |