Etymology From Middle English crevice, from Old French crevace, from crever (“to break, burst”), from Latin crepō (“to break, burst, crack”). Doublet of crevasse.
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A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
[T]he mouse / Behind the mouldering wainscot shriek'd, / Or from the crevice peer'd about.1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “Mariana”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, stanza VI, page 13:
16 March, 1926, Virginia Woolf, letter to V. Sackville-West I can't tell you how urbane and sprightly the old poll parrot was; and […] not a pocket, not a crevice, of pomp, humbug, respectability in him: he was fresh as a daisy.
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A dark turd appears out the crevice, out of the absolute darkness between her white buttocks.1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
[…] howling like a wolf as I penetrated her harder and harder as she asked for more and more and moved her legs to the left and to the right so I could go deeper and deeper into her crevice.2018, Michael J. Manley, Still Waters Run Deep, page 130:
Etymology From Middle English crevice, from Old French crevace, from crever (“to break, burst”), from Latin crepō (“to break, burst, crack”). Doublet of crevasse.
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To crack; to flaw.
they are more apt in swagging down, to pierce with their points, then in the jacent Postures and […]crevice the Wall1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC: