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crépine

French, noun/kʁe.pin/

crépine is spelled C-R-É-P-I-N-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 21 million words in written French, the 147,615th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Crépine is a French feminine noun meaning “caul (of pork, lamb etc.)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Passementerie travaillée à jours, sorte de frange qui est tissée et ouvragée par le haut et pendant en grands…”.

What does crépine mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininecaul (of pork, lamb etc.)

  2. 2

    feminineliner, filter; strainer

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Passementerie travaillée à jours, sorte de frange qui est tissée et ouvragée par le haut et pendant en grands filets ou franges en bas. 2. Enveloppe graisseuse (épiploon) des rognons du mouton, du veau, du porc, qui est utilisée en cuisine. 3. Plat qui en est entouré. 4. Filtre qui sert à arrêter les grosses impuretés à l’extrémité d’une canalisation.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of crépine

  • crépines plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce crépine?

  • /kʁe.pin/
  • \kʁe.pin\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to crépine

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is crépine in French?

crépine appears about once in every 21 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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