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

Some Mexican species produce pods that are boiled and eaten, and certain portions contain saponaceous properties.

From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by Saunders, William

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

He might have so painted, if oil and water had been combined, and the vehicle rendered saponaceous, which it probably was.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 by Various