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
The saliva is a saponaceous liquor, destitute of taste or smell, which is squeezed out from these glands, and mixed with the food during mastication.
From Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease by Garnett, Thomas
Running it down in a north-west direction for seven miles, we were at length stopped by a bank of white saponaceous clay, crossing the valley like a wall.
From Expedition into Central Australia by Sturt, Charles
The pericardium, like the pleura and the peritoneum, may be covered with a saponaceous film which is albuminous.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Now proceed as for the manufacture of saponaceous cream.
From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by Piesse, George William Septimus
