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Papery   /pˈeɪpəri/   Listen
Papery

adjective
1.
Thin and paperlike.  "Wasps that make nests of papery material"
2.
Of or like paper.  Synonyms: chartaceous, paperlike.





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"Papery" Quotes from Famous Books



... lopsided moon, now hung high over a low, desolate shore of blanched rampikes, was fading to a papery whiteness against a sky of dawn, the roar of the river grew louder, and the islet, no longer slowly revolving, plunged forward, through a succession of wallowing waves, over a wild half-mile of ledges, and joined itself to a wider and mightier stream. The wolf, drenched, shivering, and appalled ...
— The Watchers of the Trails - A Book of Animal Life • Charles G. D. Roberts


Words linked to "Papery" :   thin, paper, paperlike


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