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

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

In any case, the figures for vulcanised rubber are much in excess of those for raw crepe rubber.

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

The effect may be proved easily and perceptibly by fastening together several pieces of crepe rubber by means of a brass “paper-fastener.”

From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Morgan, Sidney