a. [f. CRAPE sb.1 + -Y1.]
1. of the texture or appearance of crape; resembling crape.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., xxvii. 221. I was soon enveloped in crapy mist.
1892. W. H. Gibson, in Harper’s Mag., June, 28/1. My pretty black butterfly … spun his crapy white-streaked halo among the leaves.
2. Of crape; clothed or draped in crape.
1855. Chamb. Jrnl., III. 97/2. They reflect not on the tremendous interest which these gauzy, crapy, ribbony bewilderments have for hundreds of the other sex.
1891. G. Meredith, One of our Conq., III. xiii. 276. I’ve had crapy processions all day before my eyes.
