Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Crepiculum
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich.
CREPIC'ULUM, CREPID'ULUM, CREPIT'ULUM. An ornament for the head worn by females, supposed to have acquired its name from the jingling sound it made with every motion of the wearer; but nothing definite is known respecting it, and the readings are doubtful. Festus, s. v. Tertull. de Pall. 4.