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PREFERRED TERM
Crepe  
DEFINITION
  • n. From the Latin "crispa", and the French "crêpe". It refers to a textile woven of crepe yarns.
BROADER CONCEPT
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
  • CIETA. Vocabulary of technical terms of fabrics (English, French, Italian, Spanish). Lyon: Centre  International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens, 1964; Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]; Segal, William. Encyclopedia of Textiles. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1972; Tortora, Phyllis, y Ingrid Johnson. The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles, 2015; Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Crêpe (tissu)

French

Crespo

Italian

Crêpe
Crespón

Spanish

crepé
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http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/157
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