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noun

Crepe n.

Same as Crape. (Also spelled crepe)

Any of various crapelike fabrics, whether crinkled or not.

A small thin pancake.

Paper with a finely crinkle texture, usually sold in rolls of 2-3 inches width; crepe paper; it is usually colored brightly and used for decoration.

Crepe de Chine, n., Canton crape or an inferior gauzy fabric resembling it. (Also spelled crepe de Chine)

Crepe lisse, smooth, or unwrinkled, crape (2).

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"Crepe" Quotes from Famous Books

... her husband! She had been waiting for Holliwell, but for a long while now she had forgotten that. Why was she still here? A strange, guilty terror came with the question. She looked down at the soft, yellow crepe of the dress she had just made and she looked at her hands lying white and fine and useless, and she felt for the high comb Prosper had put into her hair. Then she stared around the gorgeous little room, snug from the world, ...

— The Branding Iron • Katharine Newlin Burt

... the vestibule door. A large person was entering—a lady, in an elaborate street gown of a somewhat striking plum-color, crowned by an ample hat with spreading, fern-like plumes. About her throat was a veritable cascade of white crepe collar; and against the crepe, carried high, and appearing not unlike a decoration, ...

— Apron-Strings • Eleanor Gates

... women were all deeply impressed with Lucy's genteel mourning costume, and felt an added respect for the little creature in her trailing crepe. Marie and Babette were in and out continually, aiding and suggesting, and Rachel had stayed with ...

— Joyce's Investments - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry

... me go to bed, she insisted upon my eating, and then after dinner I sat in an old but lovely wrap of white crepe, and she brushed out my hair for more than an hour—there is such a tremendous lot of it, ...

— Red Hair • Elinor Glyn

... of standards. On this occasion Mora's great coupe, the "eight-spring" affair which carried him to social or political gatherings, occupied the place of that companion in victory, its panels draped in black, its lanterns enveloped in long, light streamers of crepe, which floated to the ground with an indescribable undulatory feminine grace. That was a new idea for funerals, those veiled lanterns, the supreme manifestation of chic in mourning; and it was most fitting for that dandy to give one last lesson in style to the Parisians ...

— The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Alphonse Daudet

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