crape

/kreip/

Thân thiện

A baker drapes a black crape over the shop window.

Definition

1. Noun:

   • A thin, crinkled fabric: A lightweight textile with a distinctive wrinkled or pebbled surface, often made from silk, wool, or synthetic fibers. Historically, it was commonly dyed black and used for mourning clothes.
   • A thin pancake: A very thin, delicate pancake, similar to a French crêpe.

2. Verb:

   • To curl or crimp tightly: To form into small, tight curls or waves, especially referring to hair.
   • To cover or drape with crape fabric: To adorn or cover something with this crinkled fabric.
   • To apply a crinkled texture: To give something a crinkled or frosted surface, such as a mirror.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Fabric):

  • The widow wore a dress made of black crape.
  • The costume designer chose a vibrant red crape for the scarf.

• Noun (Pancake):

  • For breakfast, she made sweet crapes with lemon and sugar.

• Verb (To curl/crimp):

  • She used a special iron to crape her hair for the vintage look.
  • The stylist will crape the ribbon to give it a textured appearance.

• Verb (To cover with fabric):

  • They decided to crape the doorway for the somber ceremony.

• Verb (To apply texture):

  • To reduce glare, they craped the surface of the glass.

Advanced Usage

• "To crape out": (Less common) To exhaust or use up completely, often in a figurative sense.
  • The long journey craped him out.
• "Craped edge": A decorative edge on paper or fabric that has been crimped or crinkled.

Variants and Related Words

• Crêpe (or crepe): The more common modern spelling for both the fabric and the pancake. "Crape" is often considered an older or variant spelling, particularly for the mourning fabric.
• Crepelike (adj): Having a texture resembling crape.
• Creping (n): The process of making crape fabric or applying a crinkled finish.

Synonyms

• Noun (Fabric): Crinkled cloth, gauze, mourning cloth.
• Noun (Pancake): Crêpe, thin pancake, blini (though blini are typically from a different tradition).
• Verb (To curl): Crimp, frizz, wave, curl.

Related Phrasal Verbs

• Crape over: To drape or cover something with crape fabric.
  • They will crape over the portrait as a sign of respect.

Related Idioms

• To be in crape: An archaic idiom meaning to be in mourning, wearing crape fabric.
  • After the king's death, the court was in crape for a year.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a soft thin light fabric with a crinkled surface
2. small very thin pancake

Verb

1. curl tightly
   • crimp hair
2. cover or drape with crape
   • crape the mirror

Từ đồng nghĩa

• crepe
• French pancake
• crimp
• frizzle
• frizz
• kink up
• kink