saponaceous

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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Will you sell pounds of soap and pennyworths of tin tacks, or whole bars of saponaceous matter, and great tenpenny nails?'

From Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Successful Marriages by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

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

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