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pa·pier-mâ·ché    Audio Help   [pey-per-muh-shey, -ma-; Fr. pa-pyey-mah-shey] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a substance made of pulped paper or paper pulp mixed with glue and other materials or of layers of paper glued and pressed together, molded when moist to form various articles, and becoming hard and strong when dry.
–adjective
2.made of papier-mâché.
3.easily destroyed or discredited; false, pretentious, or illusory: a papier-mâché façade of friendship.
Also, paper-mâché.

[Origin: 1745–55; < F: lit., chewed paper]
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papier-mâché [pӕpieiˈmaʃei, (American) peipər-məˈʃei] noun, adjective
(of) a substance consisting of paper mixed together with some kind of glue, which can be made into models, bowls, boxes etc
Arabic: وَرَق مُعَجَّن
Chinese (Simplified): 纸型
Chinese (Traditional): 紙型
Dutch: papier©machá‚á
Estonian: papjeemašee
Finnish: paperimassa
French: carton-pâte
German: das Pappmache'
Greek: πεπιεσμένο χαρτί
Hungarian: papírmasé
Italian: cartapesta; di cartapesta*
Japanese: はりこ(の)
Lithuanian: papjė mašė
Polish: papier mach\'e, tektura
Portuguese (Brazil): papel machê
Portuguese (Portugal): pasta de cartão
Romanian: papier-mâché
Russian: папье-маше
Spanish: cartón piedra
Swedish: papier-maché
Turkish: kartonpiyer
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd.
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