noun
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Mourning garments, especially an armband or hatband.
verb
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To form into ringlets; to curl or crimp.
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a machine for craping silk
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To clothe in crape.
noun
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A flat round pancake-like pastry from Lower Brittany, made with wheat.
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A soft thin light fabric with a crinkled surface.
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Crepe paper; thin, crinkled tissue paper.
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Rubber in sheets, used especially for shoe soles.
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The policeman wore crepe-soled shoes.
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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.
Examples of crape in a Sentence
There are large silk and crape works.
Velvet, however, is not capable of being made the basis for pictures so elaborate and microscopically accurate as those produced by the yuzen process on silk crape or habutaye.
The finer varieties are used as an emollient and demulcent in medicine, and in the manufacture of confectionery; the commoner qualities are used as an adhesive paste, for giving lustre to crape, silk, &c., in cloth finishing to stiffen the fibres, and in calico-printing.
The soft silk known as habutaye is a favorite ground for such work, but silk crape also is largely employed.
He was arrested on the spot, and when his lodgings were searched a quantity of powder and shot was found, with the rules of a secret society, called" Young England,"whose members were pledged to meet," carrying swords and pistols and wearing crape masks."These discoveries raised the surmise that Oxford was the tool of a widespread Chartist conspiracy - or, as the Irish pretended, of a conspiracy of Orangemen to set the duke of Cumberland on the throne; and while these delusions were fresh, they threw well-disposed persons into a paroxysm of loyalty.
Sixteen of these alabaster scarfs hang side by side in Hovey's Balcony, three white and fine as crape shawls, thirteen striated like agate with every shade of brown, Luray Cavern.
Chocolate or dove-colored grounds with delicate diapers in gold and engobe; brown or black faience with white, yellow and pink designs incised or in relief; pottery curiously and deftly marbled by combinations of various colored clays these and many other kinds are to be found, all, however, presenting one common feature, namely, skilful finger-moulding and a slight roughening of the surface as though it had received the impression of coarse linen or crape before baking.
A broad stream or canal crosses the city from south to north, and forms the principal highway for boat traffic. The main trade of the place is in raw silk, but some silk fabrics, such as flowered crape (chousha), are also manufactured.
The latter part of the century saw a decline in demand for black crape.