papier mache
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The scene she depicts even imitates her real life: Kahlo actually kept a smaller, papier-mâché skeleton atop her own canopy bed in Mexico City as a reassuring symbol of death’s ubiquity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
One of the most famous involved Frank Morris, and brothers Clarence and John Anglin, who escaped in June 1962 by placing papier-mâché heads in their beds and breaking out through ventilation ducts.
From BBC • May 10, 2025
Above us were giant papier-mâché heads of alebrijes — colorful Mexican folk art figurines — used at LA Librería’s recent appearance at the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2024
The tables featured papier-mâché vases, dahlias she’d grown herself and a few buckets of flowers from Little Jack Flower Farm in Snohomish.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 15, 2024
It is such a bad lie I’m sure she’ll bust me for it, but she’s up to her elbows in papier-mâché helping Emma make a Greek temple.
From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
