saponaceous

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Wons puts them through a microphone in a voice hushed, saponaceous, insinuatingly folksy, with an ingratiating "Are yuh listenin'?" or "Isn't that pretty?"

From Time Magazine Archive

At the age of 37, Oumansky was Washington's youngest Ambassador�suave, saponaceous, brilliant and astute.

From Time Magazine Archive

The previously-formed saponaceous mixture is now to be placed in the mortar, and the ready-formed emulsion in the runner; the soapy compound and the emulsion is then carefully blended together.

From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by Piesse, George William Septimus

Will you sell pounds of soap and pennyworths of tin tacks, or whole bars of saponaceous matter, and great tenpenny nails?'

From Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Successful Marriages by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

Dr. Russel greatly recommends the Use of Sea Water along with the saponaceous Medicines.

From An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Monro, Donald