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  • noun Plural form of crescent.

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Examples

  • In the distance are three other large island groups configured as palms within crescents and planted with high-rise resorts, amusement parks, and a thousand mansions built on stilts over the water.

    Archive 2005-07-01 Ben Barren 2005

  • In the distance are three other large island groups configured as palms within crescents and planted with high-rise resorts, amusement parks, and a thousand mansions built on stilts over the water.

    7 Star Service Ben Barren 2005

  • ½ medium onion, sliced into thin crescents ( "lunitas") 1 large clove garlic, minced

    Fish in spicy tomato sauce: Pescado a la veracruzana 2009

  • ½ medium onion, sliced into thin crescents ( "lunitas") 1 large clove garlic, minced

    Fish in spicy tomato sauce: Pescado a la veracruzana 2009

  • ½ medium white or yellow onion, cut into thin crescents

    Squash Casserole: Torta de Calabaza 2008

  • ½ medium white or yellow onion, cut into thin crescents

    Squash Casserole: Torta de Calabaza 2008

  • At the first glance they seemed to be all right -- he could detect nothing wrong; for aught that he could see the crescents were the same which he had submitted to the merchant the day before.

    Mona Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 1884

  • In the English edition there is a note after "crescents" stating, "There is nothing new under the sun."

    Is the Mask a Hoax? 1999

  • [These which I have called crescents, were a kind of hook of a semicircular form, to which the reins were occasionally fastened.

    The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1832

  • There were dark crescents under his eyes, and he looked a decade older, with all his youthful energy gone.

    End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011

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