papery
Americanadjective
adjective
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Being back at Disney, Dudamel admits, is very emotional, especially conducting “Walküre” with Gehry’s sets of billowy, sumptuous clouds and fanciful white papery horses.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
The show pairs the painting with a Kiki Smith sculpture, created over five decades later, that portrays the papery form of a woman from the waist down, her fetus dangling by an umbilical cord.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
He rubs off the papery chaff with his fingers, parboils them and covers them with seasoned rice vinegar in a jar for 24 hours.
From Seattle Times • May 17, 2024
The walls are lined with papery things — sheets of newspaper and fragments from a map.
From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2024
When they hugged, his body did not relax against hers and the brief press of his lips felt papery.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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