Comparative form meaning more crepe-like, more wrinkled, or having more of a papery texture.
From crepe or crepey + -er (comparative suffix), comparing degrees of crepe-like texture.
The existence of 'crepier' shows how English speakers constantly borrow textile vocabulary to describe biological change—we literally fashion our descriptions of aging from fabric terminology!
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