The word "crested" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that has a crest or is formed in the shape of a crest. For example, "The flag featured a golden crested eagle".
Such incidents often have their roots in petty local squabbles, but their tendency to take nasty sectarian turns has left Copts feeling vulnerable, making them cling even more tightly to their church.Some observers detect signs that the wave of religiosity which started in the 1970s may have crested.
RHODE ISLAND thought it had seen the worst on March 15th, when the Pawtuxet river crested at 15.2 feet (4.6 m).
"We keep thinking the wave has crested, but it has grown," he says.The Supreme Court could break that wave.
The talk is of a complete break with the past.But this is not Egypt or Tunisia, where the wave of political upheaval sweeping the Arab world crested last winter, toppling the regimes of Hosni Mubarak and Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali.
He predicted that many Linux businesses would falter before the end of 2001, and that this, together with technical shortcomings, would "call into question whether Linux should be used at all" (instead of his own company's ubiquitous Windows, that is).The Linux hype has undeniably crested.
As they crested it, with Lessing half-in and half-out, the car rolled back over her, cracking her hip.
Royal penguin (Eudyptes schlegeli), species of crested penguin (genus Eudyptes, order Sphenisciformes) characterized by a large orange-coloured bill, a pale-coloured face, a black head, and a long crest of yellow-orange feathers that originates on the forehead and runs along the sides and top of the head.
Once the scheme fully tames the water, by steering it through a tunnel blasted into the mountain, the grid will gain another 450MW.The river swirls away, white-crested and silt-laden, racing to the nearby border with Pakistan.
And I heard a troupe of that rarest of mammals, the Hainan black-crested gibbon, hooting away high up along the mountain ridges.
Layered over the top of all this came the screeches of sulphur-crested cockatoos.
And its new passports, blue and eagle-crested, closely resemble America's travel document.
