saponaceous

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At the age of 37, Oumansky was Washington's youngest Ambassador�suave, saponaceous, brilliant and astute.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wons puts them through a microphone in a voice hushed, saponaceous, insinuatingly folksy, with an ingratiating "Are yuh listenin'?" or "Isn't that pretty?"

From Time Magazine Archive

Color the grease very strongly with alkanet root, then proceed as for the manufacture of saponaceous cream.

From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by Piesse, George William Septimus

The cortical part of the root yields a milky saponaceous juice which is very bitter and slightly sedative.

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas

The gate was open and a faint saponaceous exhalation struck upon my dilated nostrils.

From The War of the Wenuses by Graves, Charles L. (Charles Larcom)