crêpe

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɹɛp/, /kɹeɪp/
• (US) enPR: krāp, IPA^(key): /kɹeɪp/

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• Rhymes: -eɪp
• Homophone: crape

crêpe (countable and uncountable, plural crêpes)

1. Alternative spelling of crepe
   • 2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 234:

     Wallace’s crêpes are plain, with just powdered sugar and strawberries on the side.

crêpe (third-person singular simple present crêpes, present participle crêping, simple past and past participle crêped)

1. Alternative spelling of crepe

• CREEP, Perce, Percé, creep, perce

Borrowed from French crêpe.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkrep/, [ˈkre̞p]
• Rhymes: -ep

crêpe

1. Alternative spelling of kreppi (type of pancake).

Substantivisation of Old French crespe, from Latin crispus, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.

• IPA^(key): /kʁɛp/

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crêpe m (plural crêpes)

1. (textiles) crepe
2. black veil

crêpe f (plural crêpes)

1. pancake, crêpe

• crêperie
• crêpe de Chine
• crêpe Suzette
• gâteau mille crêpes

• crêper

• “crêpe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• perce, percé

crêpe

1. Alternative spelling of krep (“crêpe”)

Substantivisation of Old French crespe, from Latin crispus.

crêpe f (plural crêpes)

1. (Guernsey) pancake
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[1], page 517:

     Il est pûs niais que Dadais qui se fouittait de crêpes.

     He is more simple than Dadais who flogged himself with pancakes.