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• n  any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarters
• s  resembling the new moon in shape

• A PTI photo essay on May 31 - June 5: A crescent sun over Beirut, a brief protest in Mexico City and a gorilla in the midst of napping.
• Today the clean, shiny mosque looks like a Polish church, decorated in pink, yellow and blue, the Moslem star crescent festooned with painted roses and daisies.
• They had been on land barely two weeks, living in tents behind a crescent fence of brush, when about 200 Indians attacked the settlers leaving two dead and 11 wounded.

• crescent-shaped
• semilunar
• lunate

News & Articles

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• Crescent man arrested in death of his wife
  The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation says a Crescent man has been arrested for the death of his wife.
  June 14, 2013 - KWTV News9
• Crescent Point Energy Announces Closing of A Private Placement of Notes
  Crescent Point Energy Corp. is pleased to announce that it has closed a private placement of long-term debt in the form of senior guaranteed notes to a group of institutional investors. The notes issued ...
  June 12, 2013 - Marketwired via Yahoo! Finance
• Crescent Communities Opens Crescent Crosstown in Tampa
  CHARLOTTE, N.C., June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- When Crescent Communities began developing its 344-unit multifamily community in Brandon, Fla. a year ago, the Charlotte, N.C.-based development company pinpointed ...
  June 12, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• King Abdullah II in Washington Post
  In 2004, Jordan's King Abdullah II warned that Iran was seeking to establish "a Shiite crescent" including Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.
• Jonathan Toews in Canada.com
  I think I've practised that (shootout scenario) a few times in my head, back in my backyard rink on Sloane Crescent (in Winnipeg),Toews said at the time. "So it was basically a dream come true tonight."
• Tony Avella in CNSNews.com
  Right now, the law calls for a menorah, star and crescent, and Christmas tree but specifically prohibits a nativity scene,Avella noted. "A menorah and a star and crescent are religious symbols. A Christmas tree is not."