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• a variation of crepe.

crape

American  

[krayp] / kreɪp /

noun

craped, craping

1. crepe.

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crape British  

/ kreɪp /

noun

1. a variant spelling of crepe

2. crepe, esp when used for mourning clothes

3. a band of black crepe worn in mourning

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Other Word Forms

• crapelike
  adjective
• crapy
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of crape

Anglicized spelling

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Example Sentences

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crape craped craping

Rather than basing the one-sheet around Lee Byung Hun’s scheming, murderous Man-su, she emphasized a blooming crape myrtle tree, a reference to the protagonist’s garden.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025

And while crape myrtles are lovely to behold and require little water once they’re established, they don’t provide much in the way of shade, a problem when you’re trying to reduce urban heat levels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2025

They also claimed the crape myrtles would provide similar amounts of shade and noise reduction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2023

“It’s disgusting,” said Steve Donnelly, who lives in North Arlington with his wife and three children and had three sickly crape myrtles in his yard.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2023

And where there had once been a bit of road, a shriveled crape myrtle tree, and a slightly wonky-shaped mailbox...now there was a panel of light.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

I knew the house, which was in a small uptown street, by its closed windows and the craped bell, which I shuddered as I touched.

From The Autobiography of a Quack and the Case of George Dedlow by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell

Twice a week her majesty's hair was curled and craped; and this operation appears to have added a full hour to the business of the toilette.

From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney

Dressed in black, with a broad-brimmed white beaver hat, craped in consequence of the recent death of his wife, he bowed with composed ease and a somewhat military grace to the multitude.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. by Various

Hanging his tall black hat, craped nearly to the crown, on a knob of the mahogany stand, he said huskily: "I DID think we'd seen the last of that," and opened the dining-room door.

From Beyond by John Galsworthy

This was well-known to his “fare” with the craped face.

From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid

The hour advanced on the Wednesdays and Saturdays is for curling and craping the hair, which it now requires twice a week.

From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney

There are those whom she makes with soft and smooth locks, and with whom crinkling and craping is only a sham.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 by Various

Ten on 'em crossed the water down yonder," said Gwenny, putting her hand to her mouth, and seeming to regard it as good news rather than otherwise; "be arl craping up by the hedgerow now.

From The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 December, 1906. by Paul M. (Paul Martin) Pearson

An' away he wint, over the hill, an' came craping shly and soft through the woods to where the little rid hin lived in her shnug bit iv a house.

From Faith Gartney's Girlhood by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney

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