Crossword clues for cressy
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cressy \Cress"y\ (kr[e^]s"[y^]), a. Abounding in cresses.
The cressy islets white in flower.
--Tennyson.
Wiktionary
a. Abounding in cresses
Wikipedia
Cressy can refer to:
Cressy or de Cressy is a surname which may refer to:
- David Cressy, American historian and professor
- Hugh de Cressy (died 1189), Anglo-Norman administrator and nobleman
- Hugh Cressy (MP), Member of Parliament for Nottinghamshire
- Serenus de Cressy (c. 1605–1674), English monk
Usage examples of "cressy".
Eve Cressy might be in bed asleep, or in the bathroom, or out on the balcony.
Sam replied, more than a little nervously: Cressy was the Remembrance's executive officer, answerable to no one aboard the carrier except Captain Stein.
Commander Cressy waited, but none of the other officers in the mess said anything.
He hadn't found any reason not to, but Commander Cressy had—and a damn good reason, too.
But then, Commander Cressy always looked thoughtful, so Sam wasn't sure how much that proved, or whether it proved anything at all.
Commander Cressy asked, as if to say, You're a mustang, so you're not supposed to know much of anything.
The battle order's drawn up between Wadicourt and Cressy this is Cressy here, it ought to be further up.
A young man, whose love she permitted, whose name was the chevalier de Cressy, was obliged, in order to visit her, to scale a terrace upon which a window opened, which conducted to the sleeping-room of his mistress.
The servants, with their master at their head, were speedily assembled for the purpose, when the absence of the chevalier de Cressy was observed.
The chevalier de Cressy, forgetful of his being your guest, and of respecting the honor of all beneath your roof, has dared to carry on a base intrigue with my woman, in whose apartment you will find him at this very minute.
The chevalier de Cressy and herself could not meet so frequently as both desired.
She scrolled through the memory of her mobile and found the home number of Odette Cressy, her friend at Scotland Yard.
Merlyn grumbled a good deal about athletics, saying that nowadays people seemed to think that you were an educated man if you could knock another man off a horse and that the craze for games was the ruination of true scholarship — nobody got scholarships like they used to do when he was a boy, and all the public schools had been forced to lower their standards — but Sir Ector, who was an old tilting blue, said that the battle of Cressy had been won upon the playing fields of Camelot.