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  • noun Alternative spelling of rice paper.

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Examples

  • Also just stocked a modest supply of rice sticks and ricepaper circles for Vietnamese rolls.

    Oriental food store in Guadalajara 2005

  • They eat the good things set before their ricepaper master, unless, as once happened, some sacrilegious tramp sneaks in and gets ahead of them.

    IX. Chinatown 1890

  • katie, these cupcakes are a great idea! we used to get edible grass in our nests when we were little, but ut was sweetened and coloured ricepaper, which you can't find here. the coconut is great! thanks fir taking part!

    Easter Basket Cupcakes Katie Khoury 2007

  • We found bunches of tiny electronics parts -- I think they were; spools of magnetic tape, but nothing to play it on; reels of very narrow film with frames much too small to see anything at all unmagnified; about three thousand cigarettes in unlabeled transparent packs of twenty -- we lit up quick, using my new lighter; a picture book that didn't make much sense because the views might have been of tissue sections or starfields, we couldn't quite decide, and there were no captions to help; a thin book with ricepaper pages covered with Chinese characters -- _that_ was a puzzler; a thick book with nothing but columns of figures, all zeros and ones and nothing else; some tiny chisels; and a mouth organ.

    The Night of the Long Knives Fritz Leiber 1951

  • ‘Everyone was told that the Japanese fleet was absolutely useless,’ Richard Smith, a young rating on Repulse remembered; ‘it was just a lot of ricepaper and string.

    Sealing Their Fate David Downing 2009

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