单词 | papier mâché |
释义 | papier mâchén.adj. A. n. A malleable mixture of paper and glue, or paper, flour, and water, which becomes hard when dry, used to make boxes, ornaments, etc.For more delicate work, papier mâché may also be formed from sheets of paper pasted together. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > materials made from paper or pulp > [noun] > papier mâché papier mâché1753 paper mache1763 paper paste1763 carton-pierre1850 1753 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 262 The ceiling ornamenting with papier-machée. 1757 Connoisseur (ed. 2) No. 91. 154 Some large and elegant Jars and Vases in Papier macheè. 1758 R. Dossie Handmaid to Arts iii. iv. §1. 407 Paper..is rarely made the subject of japanning till it is converted into papier machè. 1816 tr. P. F. Tingry Painter & Varnisher's Guide (ed. 2) xi Colouring articles made of papier maché. 1879 G. B. Prescott Speaking Telephone (new ed.) 305 Thin sheets of papier-maché. 1904 S. R. Bottone Talking Machines & Records 62 The horn or trumpet which collects the sounds should be of papier mâchè, and not of metal. 1939 R. G. Collingwood Autobiogr. i. 1 Relief maps in papier-mâché made by boiling down newspapers in a saucepan. 1991 M. Tully No Full Stops in India (1992) i. 40 There were white storks, gaudily striped tigers,..–all made of papier mâché and cotton wool. B. adj. Made of papier mâché. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > materials made from paper or pulp > [adjective] > made of papier mâché papier mâché1753 paper mache1763 the world > time > change > changeableness > [adjective] slidinga900 wankleeOE windyc1000 unsteadfastc1200 fleeting?c1225 loose?c1225 brotelc1315 unstablec1340 varyingc1340 variantc1374 motleyc1380 ungroundedc1380 muablea1393 passiblea1393 remuablea1393 changeablea1398 movablea1398 variablec1397 slidderya1400 ticklec1400 variantc1412 flitting1413 mutable?a1425 movingc1425 flaskisable1430 flickering1430 transmutablec1430 vertible1447 brittlea1450 ficklea1450 permutablec1450 unfirmc1450 uncertain1477 turnable1483 unsteadfast1483 vagrantc1522 inconstant1526 alterable?1531 stirringc1540 slippery1548 various1552 slid?1553 mutala1561 rolling1561 weathery1563 unconstant1568 interchangeable1574 fluctuant1575 stayless1575 transitive1575 voluble1575 changeling1577 queasy1579 desultory1581 huff-puff1582 unstaid1586 vagrant1586 changeful1590 floating1594 Protean1594 unstayed1594 swimming1596 anchorless1597 mobilec1600 ticklish1601 catching1603 labile1603 unrooted1604 quicksilvered1605 versatile1605 insubstantial1607 uncertain1609 brandling1611 rootless1611 squeasy1611 wind-changinga1616 insolid1618 ambulatory1625 versatilous1629 plastic1633 desultorious1637 unbottomed1641 fluid1642 fluent1648 yea-and-nay1648 versipellous1650 flexile1651 uncentred1652 variating1653 chequered1656 slideable1662 transchangeative1662 weathercock-like1663 flicketing1674 fluxa1677 lapsable1678 wanton1681 veering1684 upon the weathercock1702 contingent1703 unsettled?1726 fermentable1731 afloat1757 brickle1768 wavy1795 vagarious1798 unsettled1803 fitful1810 metamorphosical1811 undulating1815 tittupya1817 titubant1817 mutative1818 papier mâché1818 teetotum1819 vacillating1822 capricious1823 sensitive1828 quicksilvery1829 unengrafted1829 fluxionala1834 proteiform1833 liquid1835 tottlish1835 kaleidoscopic1846 versative1846 kaleidoscopical1858 tottery1861 choppy1865 variative1874 variational1879 wimbly-wambly1881 fluctuable1882 shifty1882 giveable1884 shifty1884 tippy1886 mutatory1890 upsettable1890 rocky1897 undulatory1897 streaky1898 tottly1905 tipply1906 up and down1907 inertialess1927 sometimey1946 rise-and-fall1950 switchable1961 1753 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 260 A papier-machée ceiling. 1777 Sir A. I. Elton in E. Burke Corr. (1844) II. 137 A papier-mâché snuff-box. 1818 ‘T. Brown’ Brighton I. i. 13 He has a clay-cold heart, and a mere papier machè mind. 1899 Daily News 26 June 8/4 The foundry room, wherein the papier-mâché moulds, or matrices, receive the boiling lead and turn out complete castings of pages of type. 1920 F. M. Ford Let. 24 July (1965) 115 The plaster Pillars of the State and the papier maché hearts of men. 1992 G. Vanderhaeghe Things as they Are? 42 The local Credit Union..has resurrected its perennial float, a six-foot-high papier mâché globe spotted with cardboard Credit Union flags. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1753 |
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