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# crape

«crape» in Mova's school dictionary: **A thin, crinkly black cloth, worn to show mourning for…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (crape, crapes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A thin, crinkly black cloth, worn to show mourning for someone who has died. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crape/#m1)

2) A thin crinkled cloth of other colours, used for dresses and wrappers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crape/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a dark cloth for mourning or a thin wrapping: «covered with crape» means wrapped or hung in this cloth

### examples

- She wore a black crape band on her sleeve for her grandfather. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crape/#x1)
- The box was wrapped in crape. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crape/#x2)
- The table was covered with crape for the funeral. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crape/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «crape» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crape/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.