📖 Definitions of "Crape"
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Mourning garments, especially an armband or hatband.
- 1
To form into ringlets; to curl or crimp.
"a machine for craping silk"
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To clothe in crape.
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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.
"The policeman wore crepe-soled shoes."
🔄 Synonyms of "Crape"
7 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| crimpnoun | A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts. |
| crepenoun | A flat round pancake-like pastry from Lower Brittany, made with wheat. |
| frizzlenoun | (intransitive) To fry noisily, sizzle. |
| frizznoun | (intransitive) Of hair, to form into a mass of tight curls. |
| kink upverb | curl tightly |
| french pancakenoun | A thin pancake. |
| kinknoun | Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste. |
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Crape"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| frizznoun | A mass of tightly curled or unruly hair. |
| frizzlenoun | A curl; a lock of hair crisped. |
| french pancakenoun | A thin pancake. |
| crepenoun | A flat round pancake-like pastry from Lower Brittany, made with wheat. |
| crimpnoun | A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts. |
| kinknoun | Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste. |
| kink upverb | curl tightly |
| myrtlenoun | An evergreen shrub or small tree of the genus Myrtus, native to southern Europe and north Africa. |
| mourningnoun | Feeling or expressing sorrow over someone's death. |
| mummy clothnoun | The linen cloth in which a mummy was wrapped. |
| mourning cloaknoun | (US) A large butterfly, Nymphalis antiopa, native to Eurasia and North America. |
| cerementnoun | (often plural) A burial shroud or garment. |
| weepernoun | A person who weeps. |
| deep mourningnoun | Mourning garments that are not only all black, but also composed of lustreless materials and made in a fashion identified with mourning. |
| winding clothnoun | A burial shroud. |
| graveclothesnoun | The clothes in which a corpse is buried. |
| mortclothnoun | Alternative form of mort cloth. [(UK, obsolete) A pall for a coffin; a casket saddle] |
| hempen cravatnoun | (archaic, euphemistic) The hangman's noose. |
| cravatnoun | A wide fabric band worn as a necktie by men having long ends hanging in front. |
| shroudnoun | That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment. |
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