crape

Multiple Entries:
  crape    crêpe  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
crape/kreɪp/

▶noun

• 1 variant spelling of crêpe.

• 2 black silk, formerly used for mourning clothes.

– origin C16: from Fr. crêpe (see crêpe).

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
crêpe /kreɪp/ (also crepe, crape)

▶noun

• 1 a light, thin fabric with a wrinkled surface.

• 2 (also crêpe rubber) hard-wearing wrinkled rubber, used especially for the soles of shoes.

• 3 also /krɛp/ a thin pancake.

– derivatives
crêpey (also crêpy) adjective.

– origin C18: Fr., from OFr. crespe ‘curled, frizzed’.