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cellophane

[sel-uh-feyn] / ˈsɛl əˌfeɪn /


NOUN
plastic wrap
Synonyms
WEAK


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After a few years, Delph sold his share of Cellophane Square and started up the poster shop.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 12, 2020

One of the album's key tracks, The Greatest, also featured in critics' top 10 songs of the year, alongside Lil Nas X's country-rap crossover Old Town Road and FKA Twigs' devastating ballad Cellophane.

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2019

This obsession had consequences: “They’re hating, they’re waiting / And hoping I’m not enough,” twigs gasps on comeback single Cellophane, a ballad so fragile and stark as to be a confrontation.

From The Guardian • May 8, 2019

Like, if you ever reach that point in your career as a performer where you have to be the third guy to play Mr. Cellophane in “Chicago” or something, you could pull that off!

From Salon • May 18, 2012

A compact affair not much bigger than a portable radio, it makes records on Cellophane tape.

From Time Magazine Archive




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