papier mache
纸浆,纸糊的,纸浆糊,纸糊
Definitions
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- : a substance made of pulped paper or paper pulp mixed with glue and other materials or of layers of paper glued and pressed together, molded when moist to form various articles, and becoming hard and strong when dry.
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- : made of papier-mâché.
- : easily destroyed or discredited; false, pretentious, or illusory: a papier-mâché façade of friendship.
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Examples
His papier-mâché characters are either sounding boards or set dressing.
Villa and Zapata looked on, smiling their papier mache smiles, sure they had seen something like this before.
A collection of rock-like papier-mâché sculptures stands across from “Cymbals, Smoke and Scissors.”
The rhinoceros, again looking pretty aimless and beaten down, was made—beautifully—of papier mache.
A pregame rally south of the Washington Monument featured drum circles and papier maché puppets.
Papier maché buttons came in with Henry Clay's patent in 1778.
It is also the prime ingredient in the papier moure, a popular fly paper.
L A composition of papier mach, with which Dr. Azoux has so beautifully represented anatomical subjects.
The pole whereby it swung between the shoulders of the bearers was rich with the painted papier-maché of Cashmere.
Filter through papier Chardin, by the aid of a hot-water funnel, if necessary (Fig. 101), into a sterile flask.