Senses relating to curliness.
crisp hair
Senses relating to brittleness.
The crisp snow crunched underfoot.
Senses relating to something brittle.
Edward, give me another of those delicious olives. / What's that? Potato crisps? No, I can't endure them.
A surname.
A place in the United States:
The adjective is derived partly from the following: * Etymology 1, sense 1: Middle English crisp (“curly, wavy”), from Old English crisp (“curly”), from Latin crispus (“of hair: crimped, curly”), poss...
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Senses relating to something curled.
They are proud, and vveare their hayre pretty long, and about their criſpes vvreath a valuable Shaſh or Tulipant; […]
Senses relating to curliness.
[…] those crisped snaky golden locks / Which make such wanton gambols with the wind,