carton-pierre
Syllables: car·ton-pierre/kɑː(ɹ)ˌtɒn.piˈɛə(ɹ)/
carton-pierre noun: papier-mâché that has been made to resemble wood, stone, or metal, used as decoration.
Noun
carton-pierre (uncountable)
- Papier-mâché that has been made to resemble wood, stone, or metal, used as decoration.
- There were, indeed, high-backed Dutch chairs of the seventeenth century; there was a sculptured carved buffet of the sixteenth; there was a sideboard robbed out of the carved work of a church in the Low Countries, and a large brass cathedral lamp over the round oak table; there were old family...1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 38, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...
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“I'm very clever, of course I know that,” St. George replied, quietly. “Lord, what rot...1892, Henry James, The Lesson of the Master
Origin of carton-pierre
Unadapted borrowing from French carton-pierre (literally “stone cardboard”).
Words that rhyme with carton-pierre
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- ware
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- Kerr
- laissez faire
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- pare
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- aflare
- despair
- glair
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- Pierre
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Questions about carton-pierre
- What does carton-pierre mean?
- Carton-pierre means papier-mâché that has been made to resemble wood, stone, or metal, used as decoration.
- What part of speech is carton-pierre?
- Carton-pierre is a noun.
- How do you pronounce carton-pierre?
- Carton-pierre is pronounced /kɑː(ɹ)ˌtɒn.piˈɛə(ɹ)/.
Words near carton-pierre in the dictionary
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