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Irpe

Irp \Irp\, Irpe \Irpe\ ([~e]rp), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A fantastic grimace or contortion of the body. [Obs.]

Smirks and irps and all affected humors.
--B. Jonson.

Usage examples of "irpe".

If regardant, then maintain your station, brisk and irpe, show the supple motion of your pliant body, but in chief of your knee, and hand, which cannot but arride her proud humour exceedingly.