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
Now proceed as for the manufacture of saponaceous cream.
From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by George William Septimus Piesse
Among other notable trees are fine specimens of the camphor-tree, the tamarind, the broad-spreading mango, opulent in fruitfulness, the flowering magnolia, also the soap-tree, with its saponaceous berries.
From Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America by Maturin Murray Ballou
The grey is a long, fibrous variety, possessing, in addition to strength, the much-prized saponaceous quality; and this is mostly found in the two Alpine valleys of Valtellina and d'Aosta.
From Asbestos Its production and use, with some account of the asbestos mines of Canada by Robert H. Jones
This Medicine, which is termed in Latin, the Polygala Virginiana, is certainly rather of a saponaceous attenuating Quality, and betrays not any Marks of Acidity, being rather moderately acrid.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot
