Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several plants of the genus Valerianella, especially a Eurasian annual (V. locusta) having small, white to pale bluish flowers and edible young leaves used in salads or as a potherb.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
mâche .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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There's a Native American float in a Christmas parade, and the announcer boasts that "... and the papier mache is made entirely of broken treaties!"
insanity, twice 2005
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This papier-mache, which is also called a matrix, was baked hard by steam, put in a curved cylinder, melted lead was poured on it and there was a solid metal page of the paper ready for the great press, which was soon thundering away, printing thousands of papers, each one containing, on the front page, Larry's account of the interview with Sullivan.
Larry Dexter's Great Search or, The Hunt for the Missing Millionaire Howard Roger Garis 1917
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After placing the wires and bulbs and testing, the grooves are filled with "mache" or putty colored to match the other surface.
Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration Albert B. Farnham
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"mache" and colored like the antlers no one will know they are not attached to a 'bony' fide forehead.
Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration Albert B. Farnham
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If you can find someone who knows the way to the papier mache factory and the factory where them make beautiful glass articles out of recycled glass both are well worth the effort to get to them.
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If you can find someone who knows the way to the papier mache factory and the factory where them make beautiful glass articles out of recycled glass both are well worth the effort to get to them.
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One was that on the trading floor of one company, the men would chew paper into little papier mache balls and then try to shoot them up my skirt.
Voices of finance: the institutional stockbroker | Joris Luyendijk 2011
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If you can find someone who knows the way to the papier mache factory and the factory where them make beautiful glass articles out of recycled glass both are well worth the effort to get to them.
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"We were a start-up, and they had deep pockets," says Matty's dad Chuck, a journeyman papier mache worker at an electric train shop.
For One Group of Boys, Donated Cars Mean a Way Out Con Chapman 2011
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And papier-mache, which could be molded and then painted to look like guns.
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