papier-mâché

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1. uncountableA composite material created by pulping paper or layering paper strips with an adhesive such as glue, starch or paste, which dries to form a durable, lightweight and moldable substance.

   She sat completely alone at the very back of the sea-themed restaurant, amid papier-mâché starfish and plastic shrimp.

   2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 236

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1. not comparableOf a material of such type or admixture.

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1. transitiveTo apply papier-mâché to.

   Then he taped another cardboard tube on and papier-mâchéd it.

   2020, Nancy Snyder, Lions for Ajax, Shepherd Press, →ISBN

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   I have had it rebuilt, papier-mâchéd inside and otherwise repaired through the years.

   1954, Emmett Kelly, F[rancis] Beverly Kelley, Clown, page 116

   When the bodies of the fish were finished, fins were cut from cardboard to the desired shapes, pinned with straight pins to the fish, and papier-mâchéd in place.

   1959, SchoolArts, page 21

   In a giddy moment they had also papier-mâchéd the legs of the card table.

   1990, Sarah Ellis, Next-Door Neighbors, New York, N.Y.: Margaret K. McElderry Books, →ISBN, page 78

   I instead constructed ‘shelves’ inside Roy’s stomach, made from mesh, which I then also papier mâchéd.

   2016, Isy Suttie, The Actual One: How I Tried, and Failed, to Remain Twenty-Something for Ever, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN

   I papier-mâchéed the entire volcano, constructed the tiny town out of toothpicks, and doublechecked the calculations to make sure it’s all to scale.

   2019, Annabeth Bondor-Stone, Connor White, Jaclyn Hyde, HarperCollins, →ISBN