1. A light soft thin fabric of silk, cotton, wool, or another fiber, with a crinkled surface. Also called crape.
2. See crape (sense 2).
3. Crepe paper.
4. Crepe rubber.
5. (also krĕp) A very thin small pancake, often stuffed and rolled up.

[French crêpe, from Old French crespe, curly, from Latin crispus.]

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