crepe rubber


noun

a type of crude or sometimes synthetic rubber pressed into crinkled sheets, used especially in making shoe soles.
Also called crepe.

Origin of crepe rubber

First recorded in 1905–10

British Dictionary definitions for crepe rubber

crepe rubber

noun

a type of crude natural rubber in the form of colourless or pale yellow crinkled sheets, prepared by pressing bleached coagulated latex through corrugated rollers: used for the soles of shoes and in making certain surgical and medical goods Sometimes shortened to: crepe Compare smoked rubber
a similar synthetic rubber