Having a thin, wrinkled, or creased texture similar to crepe fabric; thin and papery in appearance.
From crepe (the crinkled fabric, from French crêpe from Latin crispus 'curled') + -y (adjective-forming suffix), creating an adjective meaning 'resembling crepe.'
Dermatologists and cosmetic companies use 'crepey skin' as a scientific-sounding term, but it's really just poetic—we describe aging skin by comparing it to wrinkled fabric because that's the visual metaphor everyone understands.
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