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crapelike

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English

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Etymology

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From crape +‎ -like.

Adjective

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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.