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

Working with wet crepe rubber, the writer found that, to all external appearances, there was no effect upon the rubber when it was allowed to sun-dry for four or five hours.

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Like the tunnels it was floored with crepe rubber or some similar substance which gave out no sound of footsteps, yet was firm underfoot.

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It will be plain, therefore, that the limits of centralisation of factory work are much narrower for the preparation of sheet rubber than is the case when crepe rubber is to be made.

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

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There have been several schemes put forward for winding crepe rubber on spindles so as to form a cylindrical package complete in itself.

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