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cresting
[ kres-ting ]
noun
- Architecture. a decorative coping, balustrade, etc., usually designed to give an interesting skyline.
- Furniture. ornamentation either carved or sawed in the top rail of a piece or else added to it.
- a system of ornamental ridges or flutes on a piece of plate armor.
cresting
/ ˈɛɪŋ /
noun
- an ornamental ridge along the top of a roof, wall, etc
- carpentry a shaped decorative toprail or horizontal carved ornament surmounting a chair, mirror, etc
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In further clips, that small cloud gets darker and flames can later be seen cresting over the hilltop.
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When they smelled smoke, the men opened their eyes and saw flames cresting over the ridge of the mountain.
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Weather Service meteorologists had forecast waves cresting between 5 to 10 feet in Los Angeles and Orange counties for Christmas Day.
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“I think we’re cresting out of the moment of film needing to be a harsh slice of reality, and I love that,” Antonoff continues.
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That claim is largely true, and it has been for years, even as millions more retirees are on the road because of the cresting boomer wave.
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