crispation
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]crispation (plural crispations)
- (archaic) The act or process of curling, or the state of being curled.
- (archaic) A slight twitch of a muscle.
- crispation of the muscles
- crispation of the stomach
- 1887, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Our Hundred Days in Europe:
- Few men can look down from a great height without creepings and crispations.
References
[edit]- “crispation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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[edit]French
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[edit]Noun
[edit]crispation f (plural crispations)
Further reading
[edit]- “crispation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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