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Plasticine

American  
[plas-tuh-seen] / ˈplæs təˌsin /
Trademark.
  1. a brand name for a synthetic material used as a substitute for clay or wax in modeling.


Plasticine British  
/ ˈplæstɪˌsiːn /

noun

  1. a soft coloured material used, esp by children, for modelling

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Today, he makes brightly colored, highly animated papier-mâché face coverings that he builds by layering strips of recycled newspaper dipped in a flour, water and salt paste over Plasticine forms.

From New York Times Mar. 1, 2024

Vulnerable young Instagram users can spend hours each day scrolling through photos and blaming themselves for not living up to the unrealistic, Plasticine standards of “beauty” that proliferate there.

From Washington Post Oct. 4, 2021

Of course, thoughts of a national-treasure franchise were unlikely to be on anyone’s mind at the time, but this 25-minute tea-cosy space epic rendered in Plasticine was surely robbed, if only by Nick Park himself.

From The Guardian Sep. 19, 2019

"If that proves too taxing, then they are asked to organise a fashion parade or make Plasticine models," he added.

From BBC May 9, 2013

But except as mortar Plasticine should be shunned.

From Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities by E. (Edith) Nesbit

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