crepe de chine

1. 1.

   a very thin crepe of silk or silklike fabric

   Broadercrepe

Questions about crepe de chine

What does crepe de chine mean?

crepe de chine means "a very thin crepe of silk or silklike fabric".

Is crepe de chine a common word?

crepe de chine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.