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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Paper.

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Examples

  • Clothes were stored in papier-mâché boxes my mother made, stacked on the two small beds during the day and moved onto the floor at night.

    Excerpt: Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin 2004

  • Ce projet du MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) qui consiste à charger électriquement une fine couche de "papier" - dont je ne connais pas la formule - permettra de charger la (les) feuille (s) de nouveaux textes, par modification de cette charge électrique.

    Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas Marie Lebert

  • The 1970s Saturday morning live-action half-hour series isn't as bad as you remember; certainly, the show's effects - namely the papier mache

    WN.com - Articles related to 'Same Kind of Different' for Samuel L. Jackson 2009

  • The 1970s Saturday morning live-action half-hour series isn't as bad as you remember; certainly, the show's effects - namely the papier mache dinosaurs - could use the modern CGI touch.

    unknown title 2009

  • They're also going to test a model of a second false Egyptian toe that has been on display in the British Museum since 1881, but they don't think that one was functional: made of cartonnage, a kind of papier mache of linen, glue and plaster, it does not bend (unlike the Cairo artifact), and so may have been purely cosmetic.

    Prosthetics ewillett 2007

  • Je pense qu'internet est avant tout un média plus rapide et plus universel que d'autres, mais je suis convaincue que le livre "papier" a encore, pour des lecteurs amoureux de l'objet livre, de beaux jours devant lui.

    Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas Marie Lebert

  • Oui, nous utilisons encore beaucoup de papier dans l'administration et notre fonds documentaire est exclusivement "papier".

    Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas Marie Lebert

  • Although Evan enjoys other art forms, such as papier mâché, he sticks mostly to drawing.

    News 2010

  • Occasionally, she takes cloth from the desert and mixes it into a kind of papier-mâché that she fashions into life-size sculptures.

    Tucson Weekly 2010

  • (A noter que la version 'papier' adaptée de cette narration hypertextuelle restitue presque exactement le rythme et le nerf de l'écran.) "

    Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas Marie Lebert

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