papier-maché
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌpeɪpə ˈmaʃeɪ/
Noun
papier-maché (uncountable)
- Alternative spelling of papier-mâché
- 1899 Feb, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, page 215:
- I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.