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

This Medicine, which is termed in Latin, the Polygala Virginiana, is certainly rather of a saponaceous attenuating Quality, and betrays not any Marks of Acidity, being rather moderately acrid.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

The previously-formed saponaceous mixture is now to be placed in the mortar, and the ready-formed emulsion in the runner; the soapy compound and the emulsion is then carefully blended together.

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

Will this be the case with saponaceous oils?

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various