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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a papier" is not correct in standard written English.
It is not a commonly used expression and may be a mix of English and French, where "papier" means "paper" in French.
Example: "I need a piece of paper to write down my notes, not a papier."
Alternatives: "a piece of paper" or "a sheet of paper."
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The raft has a papier mache dragon with flashing blue eyes as a figurehead.
It has piercing sightless eyes, a drinker's complexion and a papier mache scalp off which the light bounces unpersuasively.
Each card has been backed with marbled paper, and the whole set fits into a papier mâché box, also covered with marbled paper.
Older gentleman holding reins and wearing a papier mâché skirt with legs attached, so when he walks it looks like he's riding a giant spider?
The occasion has been trans formed into a kind of Soviet Ecumenical, glorifying the hag iology of a papier mâché Lenin.
In one segment a news anchor angrily shoves a pie into the mouth of a papier maché Slim, mocking him as a gluttonous, insatiable tyrant.
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There were long trunk-shaped balloons emanating from a papier-mache elephant face & Blanket races.
Frank, featuring Michael Fassbender in a papier-mache head, was always a hard one to call.
A papier-mache head of Charlie Chaplin entitled "Just Married", attracts customers to the facade of the Tunnel of Love.
A papier-mâché mask covered by spiraling lines by Robert Smithson might have been borrowed from an ethnographic museum.
Why do people sometimes pray while facing a papier-mache Mount Fuji when pollution has obscured the real one?
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