saponaceous
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- saponaceousness noun
Etymology
Origin of saponaceous
First recorded in 1700–10; from New Latin sāpōnāceus, equivalent to Latin sāpōn- (stem of sāpō ) soap + -āceus -aceous
Example Sentences
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At the age of 37, Oumansky was Washington's youngest Ambassador�suave, saponaceous, brilliant and astute.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wons puts them through a microphone in a voice hushed, saponaceous, insinuatingly folksy, with an ingratiating "Are yuh listenin'?" or "Isn't that pretty?"
From Time Magazine Archive
Anon the rev. clergyman, emerging from the vestry-room to the right, will pass along the front of this jungle to the prie-dieu, and so, framed in flowers, face the congregation with his saponaceous smile.
From A Book of Burlesques by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)
The leaves of the plant discover a viscid sweetishness, accompanied with a more durable saponaceous pungency and warmth: these seem capable of answering some useful purposes, as a stimulating, aperient, antiscorbutic medicine.
From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by Salisbury, William
Thus adjured, Eleonora, the eldest and tousley of head, gave her shoulder a hitch out of the straps, and sulkily held out a hand elegantly veined and marbled from the want of saponaceous applications.
From By Birth a Lady by Fenn, George Manville
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