One way to hold this word: something spread out very thin, with a surface that never comes out perfectly flat. Run a finger across it and you feel fine . That thin, slightly crinkled sheet turns up as cloth, as party paper, as pressed rubber, and - once you let the picture stretch into the kitchen - as a poured so thin that it ripples at the edge.
From the word’s history
English took crepe from French crepe, which goes back to Latin crispus; crisp and crape come from the same root. That shared root is why one spelling covers cloth, paper, rubber and a pancake - they are not four unrelated words that happen to look alike.
英文的 crepe 借自法文 crêpe，再往前是拉丁文 crispus；英文的 crisp 和 crape 都是同一個根長出來的。也因為根是同一個，布料、紙、橡膠和可麗餅才會共用一個拼法——它們不是四個剛好長得像的字。
Wiktionary, "crepe"
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