papery

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The show pairs the painting with a Kiki Smith sculpture, created over five decades later, that portrays the papery form of a woman from the waist down, her fetus dangling by an umbilical cord.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

Hardneck garlic has bigger, more uniform cloves and a thicker skin that is easier to peel, whereas softneck has a larger number of smaller cloves with a papery skin that’s hard to peel.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2024

This wild child produces sweet pink or white blooms in spring followed by coin-shaped seed heads that split to reveal papery sheaths with a pearly sheen.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 12, 2022

Three days later, I pulled the papery leaves from the stems and packed them into a jar of winter tea.

From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2022

Her voice was nearly gone, so, in order to hear her, Billy had to put his ear right next to her papery lips.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut