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papier mache

[pey-per-muh-shey, -ma-, pa-pyey-mah-shey] / ˌpeɪ pər məˈʃeɪ, -mæ-, pa pjeɪ mɑˈʃeɪ /


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Peta also offered to provide organisers with a giant papier mache vegetable to replace the fiesta's traditional mackerel.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

Certainly there must be a few tradwives whipping up hissy fits about this on TikTok, pledging to abandon King Arthur in favor of some brand best suited to make papier mache paste.

From Salon ● Jan. 22, 2024

But the first look was surely the best, a surrealist white coat with tubular arms that looked like it had been made from papier mache.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2022

There’s a sense of excitement in the air and in Ubud and the surrounding villages I’ve seen people crafting huge, ugly ogoh-ogoh papier mache effigies, with bulging eyes, fangs and hairy backs representing evil spirits.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 27, 2017

“Only for about ten seconds. Then it fell apart, and the papier mache clogged up the drain in the art-room sink for a month.”

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass




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