CRAPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crape mean? 

• CRAPE (noun)
  The noun CRAPE has 2 senses:

1. small very thin pancake

2. a soft thin light fabric with a crinkled surface

  Familiarity information: CRAPE used as a noun is rare.

• CRAPE (verb)
  The verb CRAPE has 2 senses:

1. cover or drape with crape

2. curl tightly

  Familiarity information: CRAPE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRAPE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small very thin pancake

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

crape; crepe; French pancake

Hypernyms ("crape" is a kind of...):

battercake; flannel-cake; flannel cake; flapcake; flapjack; griddlecake; hot cake; hotcake; pancake (a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crape"):

crepe Suzette (crepes flamed in a sweet orange-and-lemon flavored liqueur sauce)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A soft thin light fabric with a crinkled surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

crape; crepe

Hypernyms ("crape" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crape"):

Canton crepe (a soft thick crinkled dress crepe; heavier than crepe de Chine)

crepe de Chine (a very thin crepe of silk or silklike fabric)

crepe marocain; marocain (a dress crepe; similar to Canton crepe)

Derivation:

crape (cover or drape with crape)

• CRAPE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they crape    ... he / she / it crapes   
Past simple: craped   
Past participle: craped   
-ing form: craping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cover or drape with crape

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

crape; crepe

Context example:

crape the mirror

Hypernyms (to "crape" is one way to...):

cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

crape (a soft thin light fabric with a crinkled surface)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Curl tightly

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

crape; crimp; frizz; frizzle; kink; kink up

Context example:

crimp hair

Hypernyms (to "crape" is one way to...):

curl; wave (twist or roll into coils or ringlets)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They crape their hair

 Context examples 

There was a good fire in the room, and a breathless smell of warm black crape—I did not know what the smell was then, but I know now.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He too looked down at the crape round his hat and replied—Mr. John died yesterday was a week, at his chambers in London.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In fact, Anne could never see the crape round his hat, without fearing that she was the inexcusable one, in attributing to him such imaginations; for though his marriage had not been very happy, still it had existed so many years that she could not comprehend a very rapid recovery from the awful impression of its being dissolved.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I remember her appearance at the moment—it was very graceful and very striking: she wore a morning robe of sky-blue crape; a gauzy azure scarf was twisted in her hair.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Behold me, on the morrow, in a much-worn little white hat, with a black crape round it for my mother, a black jacket, and a pair of hard, stiff corduroy trousers—which Miss Murdstone considered the best armour for the legs in that fight with the world which was now to come off.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

On repairing thither, I found a man waiting for me, having the appearance of a gentleman's servant: he was dressed in deep mourning, and the hat he held in his hand was surrounded with a crape band.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Two young, graceful women—ladies in every point—sat, one in a low rocking-chair, the other on a lower stool; both wore deep mourning of crape and bombazeen, which sombre garb singularly set off very fair necks and faces: a large old pointer dog rested its massive head on the knee of one girl—in the lap of the other was cushioned a black cat.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)