papier mache in English

noun
1
a malleable mixture of paper and glue, or paper, flour, and water, that becomes hard when dry.
George was constructing a crocodile out of papier-mâché

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1. 11 Traditionally made of papier-mache by mascherari, the masks are used during Carne celebrations that envelop Venice for two weeks before Ash Wednesday.

2. 10 Traditionally made of papier-mache by mascherari, the masks are used during Carnevale celebrations that envelop Venice for two weeks before Ash Wednesday.

3. It was not until March 2011 that an X-ray of the Horniman merman , revealed that the monkey half was in fact made from papier mache .

4. Merle Middleton, the magazine's bored Benefactress, is variously described as made of "papier-mache" (227), as "a glacier that tried to melt, a toy doll that wanted a heart that would beat instead of just eyes that closed" (166), a bloodless "woman caked in ice" (254), and "a plaster cast of Venus."