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

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)

It is a soft, saponaceous substance, not unpleasant to the taste, of a bluish color, and melts in the mouth, like the fat of cold meat, leaving the palate greasy.

From The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William

Its root is saponaceous, and is pounded into a pulp and used instead of soap by the natives.

From Arizona Sketches by Munk, J. A. (Joseph Amasa)