crepe rubber


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

Origin of crepe rubber

1
First recorded in 1905–10

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British Dictionary definitions for crepe rubber

crepe rubber

noun
  1. 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: Sometimes shortened to: crepe Compare smoked rubber

  2. a similar synthetic rubber

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