Obs. Also 6 crispyne, krippin, creppin, 6–7 crippin. [a. OF. crespine, mod.F. crépine (Pr. crespina), f. crespe, crêpe: see CRÊPE, CRAPE.]
1. a. A net or caul (of gold or silver thread, silk lace, etc.) for the hair, formerly worn by ladies. b. A part of a hood. c. A fringe of lace or net-work for a dais, baldachin, bed, etc.
c. 1532. Dewes, Introd. Fr., in Palsgr., 907. The crispynes, les crespines.
1566. Adlington, Apuleius, II. ix. (1596), 25. Diuers (… to shew their grace and feature) wil cast off their partlets, collars, habilimentes, frontes, cornets and krippins.
1578. Gifts to Queen, in Nichols, Progr., II. 73. By the Lady Ratclif, five creppins of lawne.
1592. Lyly, Mydas, I. ii. Earerings, borders, crippins, shadowes.
1611. Cotgr., Crespine, the Crepine of a French hood.
1662. J. Davies, trans. Mandelslo’s Trav. E. I., 64. On their heads they [Guzuratta women] have onely a thin cap, or cover them with a crepine of Lawn, wrought with Gold.
1708. Motteux, Rabelais, IV. lii. (1737), 214. The Crepines of their Hoods, their Ruffles.
1721. C. King, Brit. Merch., II. 230. Beds, Matrasses, Hangings, Coverlids, Quilts, Crespins, Fringes, and Molets of Silk.
1860. Fairholt, Costume, Gloss., Crespine, the golden net-caul worn by ladies in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries…. The crespine still exists in name and fact in Italy.
2. Cookery. See quot. [Cf. F. crépine the caul enveloping the viscera of an animal.]
1726. Dict. Rust. (ed. 3), Crepine, a sort of farce wrapp’d up in a Veal cawl.
