Vocabulary

crepe

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