(rhetoric) A "rising" tricolon, its parts increasing in magnitude or intensity towards a climax on the third part

(historical) A crescent-shaped strip of fertile land stretching from present-day Iraq through eastern Turkey and down the Syrian and Israeli coasts.

The figure of the moon as it appears between its first or last quarter and the new moon, with concave and convex edges terminating in points. / A curved pastry.

(dated, rare) marked by an increase; waxing, like the Moon. / Shaped like a crescent.

(transitive) To form a crescent shape / (transitive) To decorate with crescents.

(music) An instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex on the left ( < ), by musicians called a hairpin.

To increase in intensity; to reach or head for a crescendo.

(music) Gradually increasing in force or loudness.

A branch of the Red Cross that operates in Muslim countries. / The symbol of this branch.

plural of crescendo