papier-mache

Examples

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• Students will need to construct an eight-inch papier-mâché sphere (a nice diversion from map coloring).

  Academic text (1995)

• Benny was holding a piñata, a three-tiered papier-mâché chick bursting out of an egg.

  Fiction book (2000)

• A papier-mache musical box in the shape of a barrel organ.

  The Phantom of the Opera (2004)

• Papier-mâché is a hobby of mine.

  Dick (1999)

• I make my own baby Jesuses out of papier-mâché.

  The Good Lie (2014)

• We were in my office, a small space, the walls hung with masks of carved wood, leather, and papier-mâché.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Inside stood a papier-mâché pig draped with pearls.

  Fiction book (2002)

• A papier-mâché dragon hangs in the lobby, its articulated parts set in motion each time a door opens.

  Fiction book (1992)

• A papier-mâché meteor, painted red and trailing smoke vertically, comes out of the darkness.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Later, they sit on the sofa drinking fizzy drinks amid papier-mâché parrots, tropical fish, and animal skins.

  Fiction book (1992)

Synonyms

M

mache

vspapier-mache

2 8.8

A light material of paper and glue used to make masks and small sculptures

is focused more on molded pulp used for decorative objects rather than fine sculpture

P

paper-mache

vspapier-mache

1 3.9

A material made of paper and glue you shape when wet and paint when dry

is an alternative older or foreign spelling rather than a different material

How Sturdy

metal

840 1.1

wood

613 1.0

papier-mache

9 5.8

paper

∞ 1.0

tissue

107 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology