Crepe

Quick meaning: Crepe is a noun meaning A flat round pancake-like pastry from Lower Brittany, made with wheat.

Meaning

A flat round pancake-like pastry from Lower Brittany, made with wheat.

More Meanings

1. A soft thin light fabric with a crinkled surface.
2. Crepe paper; thin, crinkled tissue paper.
3. Rubber in sheets, used especially for shoe soles.
4. (transitive) To cover in crepe.
5. (transitive) To crease (paper) in such a way to make it look like crepe paper
6. (transitive) To frizz (the hair).
7. (Ireland) A death notice printed on white card with a background of black crepe paper or cloth, placed on the door of a residence or business.

Example Sentences

The policeman wore crepe-soled shoes.

Aside from their pierogis, their menu also includes Ukrainian borscht soup, nalysnyky crepes and uzvar, a traditional drink made out of dried fruits and honey.

While the mixture is very similar to crepe batter, when you confine it to deep, narrow, muffinlike molds, the surface of the batter sets and the air is trapped, so that the pastry has nowhere to go but up and out, creating a gravity-defying bubble.

Word Forms

• crepes
• creping
• creped

Synonyms for crepe

Depending on context, synonyms include crape.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include crape, pancake, chine, galette, crepier, kaletez.

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