🧵 A thin fabric 🖤 To cover in mourning 🥞 A thin pancake 〰️ To make wavy

to crape

9.9

To cover something with a soft thin fabric as a sign of mourning

verb
/kreɪp/

: cubrir con crepé

To show their respect, the community gathered to crape the church in black fabric for the funeral service.

Examples

During the Victorian era, it was common to crape doorways after a death in the family.
They decided to crape the windows for the funeral.
She carefully craped the portrait frame to honor her late father.
They spent the morning craping the parlor mirrors for the funeral.
Don't forget to crape the windows before the ceremony!
During the Victorian era, families would crape their doorways as a sign of mourning for the deceased.
Before the memorial, they decided to crape the windows in black to signify their grief.

Synonyms

to crepe

vsto crape

Archaic

1 9.9

To cover something with black cloth as a sign that someone has died

is the identical act but is an alternative spelling in some sources

to pall

vsto crape

9.9

To cover a coffin with a heavy dark cloth

is used to drape for mourning more generally, not only for coffins

Compounds

crape myrtle

1 8.8

A small tree or shrub with bright summer flowers and smooth bark

crape fern

New Zealand

9.9

A fern from New Zealand with divided leaves and very woolly stalks

crape jasmine

Indian

9.8

A tropical shrub with shiny leaves and white flowers that smell sweet

Queen's crape myrtle

Australian

8.8

A tropical tree with large showy purple flowers often grown in gardens

Surface Forms

crape infinitive

craped past

craped past participle

craping present participle

crapes third person singular

Etymology

The verb crape comes from the fabric name crêpe, the black cloth used for 'mourning', so to 'crape' something is to cover it with that cloth as a sign of grief.