papier-maché

A form of papier-mâché — A 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.

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Meanings

nounpapier-maché (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative spelling of papier-mâché.

    I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.

    1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 215
adjectivepapier-maché (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative spelling of papier-mâché.
verbpapier-maché (third-person singular simple present papier-machés, present participle papier-machéing, simple past and past participle papier-machéd or papier-machéed)

present singular third person papier-machés · participle present papier-machéing · participle past papier-machéd · past papier-machéd · participle past papier-machéed · past papier-machéed

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of papier-mâché.
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APA

papier-maché. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/papier-mach%C3%A9

MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “papier-maché,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/papier-mach%C3%A9.

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