papery
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- paperiness noun
Etymology
Origin of papery
Example Sentences
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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
Hardneck garlic has bigger, more uniform cloves and a thicker skin that is easier to peel, whereas softneck has a larger number of smaller cloves with a papery skin that’s hard to peel.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2024
This wild child produces sweet pink or white blooms in spring followed by coin-shaped seed heads that split to reveal papery sheaths with a pearly sheen.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 12, 2022
Three days later, I pulled the papery leaves from the stems and packed them into a jar of winter tea.
From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2022
I keep walking, snapping a few pictures of a madrone tree with its papery orange bark flaking away from the trunk, the new skin underneath yellow-green and satiny smooth.
From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio
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