Crimped

ppl. a. Also crimpt.

  † 1.  Curled: see CRIMP v.¹ 2. Obs.

  2.  Compressed or folded into minute parallel ridges or plaits, frilled.

1712.  [see CRIMP v.¹ 3].

1792.  Minstrel (1793), II. 172. Her crimpt lips relaxed to something like a smile.

1809.  Pinkney, Trav. France, 38. Madame in a high crimped cap.

1860.  Tyndall, Glac., I. xxi. 147. Many cells had also crimped borders. Ibid. (1871), Fragm. Sc. (1879), I. vii. 238. The edge of the cataract is crimped by indentations.

1886.  Sheldon, trans. Flaubert’s Salammbô, 44. Gold spangles glittered in the crimped hair.

  3.  Of fish; see CRIMP v.¹ 4.

1791.  Huddesford, Salmag., 145. Crimpt cod, and mutilated Mackarel.

1798.  Canning, etc. Progress of Man, 28, in Anti-Jacobin, 19 Feb. Cools the crimpt cod.

1804.  A. Carlisle, in Phil. Trans., XCV. 23. The specific gravity of the crimped fish was greater than that of the dead fish.