crepe rubber

American  

noun

1. a type of crude or sometimes synthetic rubber pressed into crinkled sheets, used especially in making shoe soles.

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crepe rubber British  

noun

1. Sometimes shortened to: crepe.  a type of crude natural rubber in the form of colourless or pale yellow crinkled sheets, prepared by pressing bleached coagulated latex through corrugated rollers: used for the soles of shoes and in making certain surgical and medical goods Compare smoked rubber

2. a similar synthetic rubber

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Etymology

Origin of crepe rubber

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

On his feet he wore shoes of kangaroo skin, made to order, with pin spikes and crepe rubber soles, lighter than those of his confreres.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the preparation of crepe rubber heavy machinery is necessary, and ample engine-power must be available.

From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Morgan, Sidney

More rarely does it happen that tackiness may have been induced by placing thin crepe rubber too near the iron roof of the drying-shed.

From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Morgan, Sidney

Surface Moulds or Mildews on Crepe Rubber.—Defects of this nature are most uncommon in the higher grades of crepe rubber, but cases of affection in the lower grades are not rare.

From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Morgan, Sidney

Some light is thus shed upon a subject which has puzzled both shippers and receivers of crepe rubber.

From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Morgan, Sidney