papery
[pey-puh-ree]
- like paper; thin or flimsy: the papery petals of the narcissus.
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Contemporary Examples
What he calls a “papery palace of stories” sustains identity and ties Mufti to place.
Historical Examples
"No one can complain of papery ices here," said the Marchesa.
The Cook's Decameron: A Study in Taste:Mrs. W. G. Waters
The coat of the inner ball is thin and papery, and opens by an apical mouth.
The Mushroom, Edible and OtherwiseM. E. Hard
It was of silky, papery fiber, as smooth to the touch as to the eye.
Diplomatic DaysEdith O'Shaughnessy
Look along the twigs and you will find the needles arranged in bundles, with a papery, enclosing sheath at the base.
Trees Worth KnowingJulia Ellen Rogers
Soft pines shed the papery sheath of their leaf bundles before the leaves themselves begin to fall.
Trees Worth KnowingJulia Ellen Rogers
papery
- like paper, esp in thinness, flimsiness, or dryness
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