crevice

Definition

A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.

Etymology

From Middle English crevice, from Old French crevace, from crever (“to break, burst”), from Latin crepō (“to break, burst, crack”). Doublet of crevasse.

Example Sentences

• "[T]he mouse / Behind the mouldering wainscot shriek'd, / Or from the crevice peer'd about."
• "16 March, 1926, Virginia Woolf, letter to V. Sackville-West I can't tell you how urbane and sprightly the old poll parrot was; and […] not a pocket, not a crevice, of pomp, humbug, respectability in him: he was fresh as a daisy."
• "A dark turd appears out the crevice, out of the absolute darkness between her white buttocks."