Crossword-Solution: CRAPES 6 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

This Brother had been married a short time; he left a Widow without children; a beautiful Lithuanian Princess, born Radzivil, and of great possessions in her own country: she, in her crapes and close-cap, remained an ornament to the new Berlin Court for some time;--not too long.

Inside, in the largest hall, the catafalque had been set up under a canopy, tall cypress-trees touched the ceiling high above, candles on silver candelabra flickered as the air blew from the water across the open balcony through the hall, and four servants of the house of Venier, dressed in black velvet, with crapes wrapped around their shiny halberds, were standing on guard like statues at the four corners of the catafalque.

The tables, chairs, and floor were soon covered with silks, crapes, gloves, muslins, and all the stock of an itinerant trader.

Military officers, who have fought against the armies of the deceased, wear black crapes over their arms in token of the same sorrow.

Great quantities are also made in England, principally in the city of Norwich, which has long been distinguished for the beauty of its crapes.