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the line that proves something was here, folded, and refused to forget it
means A line or ridge made in something, especially paper or cloth, by folding, pressing, or crushing it.
from English through and through, but with a foggy start: 'crease' is thought to be a variant of 'creast,' an older form of 'crest' — the ridge along the top of a helmet or hill, from Latin 'crista,' a tuft or comb. The idea slid from a raised ridge to the folded ridge a fold leaves behind, though the exact path is fuzzy enough that dictionaries hedge their bets.
- paper limit
- folding past seven creases gets nearly impossible
- cricket
- the crease is a literal line defining safe ground
- fashion war
- sneakerheads dread the toe crease above all
- permanent press
- chemicals lock creases into fabric forever
- brain folds
- cortical creases pack more thinking into less skull
la's laugh lines — facial wrinkles that deepen with age and smiling, visible on every human face
cricket pitch crease — the white line 22 yards from stumps in cricket, established in official rules since 1835
hockey goal crease — blue painted area in front of the net in ice hockey, nhl regulation since 1927