crepe
noun
: a very thin pancake: a thin often silk or cotton cloth that hasmany very small wrinkles all over its surface: a thin, hard type of rubber that has abumpy surface and that is used especially for the bottoms of shoes
Full Definition
1 : a light crinkled fabric woven of any ofvarious fibers2 : crape 23 : crude rubber in the form of nearly white tobrown crinkled sheets used especially for shoesoles <crepe-soled shoes>4 : a small very thin pancakecrepe adjectivecrep·ey or crepy \ˈkrā-pē\ adjective
Examples
crepe-soled shoes
Variants: or crêpe \ˈkrāp\
Origin: French crêpe - more at crape.
First use: 1750
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