crapelike

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

crape +‎ -like

Adjective[edit]

crapelike (comparative more crapelike, superlative most crapelike)

  1. Resembling crape.
    • 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette:
      ...so I had sought through a dozen shops till I lit upon a crapelike material of purple-gray — the color, in short, of dun mist, lying on a moor in bloom.