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Definition of Pastelike
1. Adjective. Resembling paste in color; pallid. "A complexion that had been pastelike was now chalky white"
Definition of Pastelike
1. Adjective. Resembling paste. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pastelike
Literary usage of Pastelike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane (1900)
"He now sprang to his feet and, going closer, gazed upon the pastelike face.
The mouth was open and the teeth showed in a laugh. ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1847)
"... and more pastelike in aspect. In the inter-hemispherical space, the membranes
of the hemispheres adhere to each other above and anteriorly to the corpus ..."
3. A Time to Heal: The Diffusion of Listerism in Victorian Britain by Jerry L. Gaw (1999)
"... a wound dressing made from the mixture of a pastelike substance and resinous
secretions from the lac insect of southern Asia laissez faire— the doctrine ..."
4. The Naturalist in Vancouver Island and British Columbia by John Keast Lord (1866)
"It is then stirred rapidly round and round with the hand, which must be perfectly
free from grease, squeezed, and worked into a pastelike form; ..."
5. The Diseases of Children: A Work for the Practising Physician by Meinhard von Pfaundler, Arthur Schlossmann (1908)
"Soapy glistening, softer, unctuous (mixed fat remnants), pastelike, frothy (starch
remnants, carbohydrate fermentation in starch-feeding). ..."
6. Transactions of the American Ceramic Society Containing the Papers and by American Ceramic Society, American Ceramic Society Meeting (1911)
"After the required grinding, the contents of the wet pans, which become rather
a pastelike mass of pulverized quartz and water, are passed over a wire ..."
7. Ten Weeks in Japan by George Smith (1861)
"pastelike consistency and passed through a press, from which it oozed forth in
long shreds of uniform size. These were taken off on boards, rearranged in ..."
8. Zoology: Descriptive and Practical by Buel Preston Colton (1903)
"... cells near the brood (by brood is meant young bees in all stages of development)
which are partially filled with a yellowish or brownish pastelike mass. ..."
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