Meaning & use
creperie
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Meaning
nouncountable
A restaurant or small cafe that specializes in making and serving thin pancakes called crepes, with sweet or savory fillings.
Grammar: Countable: a creperie, two creperies.
Patterns
- eat at a creperie
- a creperie in something
We had lunch at a little creperie near the harbor.
The creperie serves ham and cheese crepes as well as ones filled with chocolate.
She opened a creperie on the corner of the market square.
Word forms
| plural | creperies |
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Common combinations
- local creperie
- The local creperie is busy on weekends.
- open a creperie
- They plan to open a creperie in the old bakery.
- French creperie
- A French creperie opened near the station.
- creperie menu
- The creperie menu has buckwheat and sweet options.
- eat at a creperie
- We like to eat at a creperie after the cinema.
Synonyms and how they differ
- pancake house
- It serves thick American-style pancakes, often for breakfast, while a creperie specializes in thin French crepes.
- cafe
- It is a broader word covering any small place for coffee and snacks, while creperie names a specific menu.
- crepe stand
- It is a small stall or cart, whereas a creperie is usually a full restaurant with seating.
Word family
Commonly confused: creperie or crêperie?
creperie vs crêperie
It is the French spelling with an accent; creperie is the common English spelling.
Practice
We stopped at a ____ for buckwheat pancakes filled with ham and cheese.
Choose one answer.
A creperie specializes in crepes. A bakery sells bread and cakes, so it is a tempting but less precise choice.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “creperie”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.