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

Where crepe rubber is to be made it may be permissible to employ a solution stronger than 1 per cent., but it is not advised.

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

For this reason, crepe rubber with coloured spots may give rise to trouble in the factory.

From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Morgan, Sidney

On the whole, therefore, the presence of sulphate in crepe rubber is adventitious, and properly washed crepe prepared with moderate quantities of bisulphite may be taken as free from any residual quantities.

From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Morgan, Sidney