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貹辱-âé

[ pey-per-muh-shey, -ma-; French pa-pyey-mah-shey ]

noun

  1. a substance made of pulped paper or paper pulp mixed with glue and other materials or of layers of paper glued and pressed together, molded when moist to form various articles, and becoming hard and strong when dry.


adjective

  1. made of 貹辱-âé.
  2. easily destroyed or discredited; false, pretentious, or illusory:

    a 貹辱-âé façade of friendship.

貹辱-âé

/ ˌpæpjeɪˈmæʃeɪ; papjemɑʃe /

noun

  1. a hard strong substance suitable for painting on, made of paper pulp or layers of paper mixed with paste, size, etc, and moulded when moist
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. made of 貹辱-âé
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of 貹辱-âé1

1745–55; < French: literally, “chewed paper”
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Word History and Origins

Origin of 貹辱-âé1

C18: from French, literally: chewed paper
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Without fail, there is at least one big movie every year that falls prey to the adage “style over substance,” a film that postures as an opus, but is really just filled with hot air and covered in 貹辱-âé with the word “masterpiece” scrawled all over its still-drying surface.

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Above us were giant 貹辱-âé heads of alebrijes — colorful Mexican folk art figurines — used at LA Librería’s recent appearance at the L.A.

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Her first intervention was to style the windows, which she thought were boring, adding mannequins and whimsical objects like 貹辱-âé dogs.

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When Dav Pilkey came to town, Pettid and Cowdin welcomed him by making a three-and-a-half foot 貹辱-âé Captain Underpants.

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Eventually they hired 39 staff members, including 21 full-time artists and fabricators who made everything in the museum from some combination of steel, wood, foam, concrete and 貹辱-âé.

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