noun
Etymology
Origin of India rubber
First recorded in 1780–90
Example Sentences
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He took ballet lessons, along with a course in "eccentric dancing"�an outre British art that Dale describes as "learning to move the body as if it had no joints, like an India rubber doll."
From Time Magazine Archive
Almost anything goes in the effort to move downfield and toss an India rubber ball into a netted goal, 6 ft. square.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sordi's face is India rubber, his body a whole silent vocabulary of bewilderment.
From Time Magazine Archive
After all, his special and general relativity theories made the astonishing assertion that time, space and matter could be squeezed and stretched like so much India rubber.
From Time Magazine Archive
“A drum with sticks. A coach and four. An India rubber ball, and a nutcracker. Nothing remotely edible.”
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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