crêpe

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɹɛp/, /kɹeɪp/, [kʰɹɛjp]
• (US) enPR: krāp, IPA^(key): /kɹeɪp/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [k(ʰ)ɹeːp], [kɹɛ(ː)p]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): [kʰɹep], [kʰɹæɪp]

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• Rhymes: -eɪp, -ɛp
• 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): /krɛːp/

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• Hyphenation: crê‧pe

crêpe f (plural crêpes, no diminutive)

1. crepe (thin pancake)

   Synonym: flensje

crêpe m (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. crepe (soft thin light fabric with a crinkled surface)

   Synonym: krip

Borrowed from French crêpe.

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

crêpe

1. alternative spelling of kreppi, a 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.

Unadapted borrowing from French crêpe.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾep/ [ˈkɾep]
• Rhymes: -ep
• Syllabification: crêpe

crêpe m or f same meaning (plural crêpes)

1. alternative form of crep

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• Manuel Seco; Olimpia Andrés; Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023), “crêpe”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]