crape

[kreyp]

noun

craped, craping 

1. crepe.

crape

/ 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

Other Word Forms

• crapy adjective
• crapelike adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of crape¹

Anglicized spelling

Example Sentences

And don’t replace them with something like crape myrtle, which is pretty but doesn’t offer much shade for the space it takes up.

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That’s the sound of shade tree advocates unhappy that I’m mentioning crape myrtles in this list.

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Tree varieties include Eureka lemon, pink guava, Golden Delicious apple, coast live oak, olive, crape myrtle, California sycamore, desert willow and torrey pines.

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

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The crape myrtle bark scale has crept into the D.C. region in recent years.

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