papier-maché
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English
Pronunciation
Noun
- Alternative spelling of papier-mâché
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, , →OCLC, part I, page 215:
- I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.
Swedish
Noun
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Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | papier-maché | papier-machés |
| definite | papier-machén | papier-machéns | |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| definite | — | — |