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paper machee

paper machee is the alternative form of papier-mâché.

Meaning of papier-mâché

Noun

papier-mâché (uncountable)

  1. A composite material created by pulping paper or layering paper strips with an adhesive such as glue, starch or paste, which dries to form a durable, lightweight and moldable substance.
    • She sat completely alone at the very back of the sea-themed restaurant, amid papier-mâché starfish and plastic shrimp.2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 236

See all 3 meanings of papier-mâché

Forms of paper machee

third-person singular presentpaper machees
present participlepaper macheeing
past participlepaper macheed
pastpaper macheed
past participlepaper macheeed
pastpaper macheeed

Origin of paper machee

Influenced by the English cognate paper.

Questions about paper machee

What is paper machee the alternative form of?
Paper machee is the alternative form of papier-mâché.

Words near paper machee in the dictionary

  1. paper knife
  2. paper knives
  3. paper launch
  4. paper launches
  5. paper mache
  6. paper machee
  7. paper machine
  8. paper machines
  9. paper maché
  10. paper mill
  11. paper mills

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paper machee (page history and authors); papier-mâché (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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