saponaceous

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

The upper 21 parts were white and saponaceous.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various