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Перевод: papery

[прилагательное]
похожий на бумагу; тонкий

Тезаурус:

1. She often appends two to a single noun ( long pink clouds ; wet, leathery hydrangea leaves ; stiff papery blades ) to flesh out, give further fullness to the feeling she wants to call forth in the reader.
2. Dot guessed by the papery men lurking inside the walls that she must be ill.
3. The hair came off like Herman's wig, and the papery flesh flaked away from the exploded skull.
4. He found his hands full of dry, papery skin which, as he worked his way closer to her windpipe, came up and away like a curtain of strudel dough.
5. She pressed it with her tongue, as she had pressed hundreds, thousands now, over twenty years' worth of these papery discs stamped with crosses, made by nuns.
6. Perhaps she'd just imagined it, like she'd imagined the pallid papery men buried in the walls.
7. Small and birdlike with papery skin on her bird's claws, her scarred anxious face, pink-rimmed eyes blinking rapidly with emotion, she was unimpressive.
8. I can evoke the wind at will and make it rustle the stiff papery blades of the bamboos and sing, through the comb-like leaves of the yew, as a worthy accompaniment to the voice that on that day and on all other days, even to the final silence, spoke words that had always the same meaning.
9. Thickets of fawn papery stems, tender green as they unfurl in the spring, have a specialized ecology all of their own.
10. We watched the emergence of one moth; it crept out from its pale yellow papery cocoon, and clung to the stem of grass to which the cocoon had been fixed with silken threads.
11. Now he bent and kissed her cheek; it was a thin papery kiss, but she understood that; understood when - rarely - she simply had to put her arms around him out of an exuberance of love, the instinctive shrinking, as though she held a wraith, something cold and wailing, a lost child.
12. The slower growing plants were unaffected although the faster growing species went very papery and spindly - and haven't recovered fully after several weeks.
13. A broad, flat dish of papery petals just pleading for a visit from passing insects.