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crepe
/kɹeɪp/
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What does crepe mean?
noun
- A flat round pancake-like pastry from Lower Brittany, made with wheat.
- A soft thin light fabric with a crinkled surface.
- Crepe paper; thin, crinkled tissue paper.
More meanings (5)
noun
- Rubber in sheets, used especially for shoe soles.
- A death notice printed on white card with a background of black crepe paper or cloth, placed on the door of a residence or business.
verb
- To cover in crepe.
- To crease (paper) in such a way to make it look like crepe paper
- To frizz (the hair).
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IPA pronunciation
/kɹeɪp/
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Cloth of gold for coverlet there was none, but an old piano scarf of yellow Japanese crepe was an excellent substitute.
Black and yellow cheese cloth or crepe paper makes very effective and inexpensive decorations.
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And, for the love of god that us bath wrought, Lat in your brayn non other fantasye So crepe, that it cause me to dye!
Julia has a trunkful of the most ravishing new clothes--an evening gown of rainbow Liberty crepe that would be fitting raiment for the angels in Paradise.
In the first row, and far forwards, the merchant had placed on a background of white napkins, an immense doll, nearly two feet high, who was dressed in a robe of pink crepe, with gold wheat-ears on her head, which had real hair and enamel eyes.