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

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crepe rubber

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

It should only be necessary to point out that essentially block rubber is merely pressed crepe rubber.

From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Morgan, Sidney

With a view to determining to what degree the drying of crepe rubber was hastened by the extent to which the rubber was rolled, experiments were made.

From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Morgan, Sidney

This darkening of crepe rubber may be attributed to a slow process of oxidation, which continues until the rubber is dry.

From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Morgan, Sidney

This condition may be created inadvertently in the course of factory practice, if piles of crepe rubber are allowed to remain for any appreciable period before hanging to dry.

From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Morgan, Sidney