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crevice (n.)

"a crack, a cleft, a fissure," mid-14c., crevace, from Old French crevace (12c., Modern French crevasse) "gap, rift, crack" (also, vulgarly, "the female pudenda"), from Vulgar Latin *crepacia, from Latin crepare "to crack, creak" (see raven). Between Latin and French the meaning shifted from the sound of breaking to the resulting fissure.

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Definitions of crevice from WordNet

crevice (n.)
a long narrow depression in a surface;
Synonyms: cranny / crack / fissure / chap
crevice (n.)
a long narrow opening;
Synonyms: crack / cleft / fissure / scissure
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