Definition of "papery" [pa•per•y]

• Resembling paper, as in thickness or texture. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Close to her, very meek under her sheltering wing, were Sarah and Mary, the housemaids – very gay in papery silks, pink and green, with much adornment of wide yellow lace."
• "They range from a species of lichen and a plant called a papery whitlow wort, neither of which is hardly more than an inch or two high, to lovely purple-flowered scrub blazing star or the fragrant scrub mint with its delicate, orchid-like blossoms that are hard to miss in the landscape when they're in bloom."
• "As I sit here, today, trying on my new editorial hat, thinking up more orders to shout at Gary, I fancy myself in charge of the glossy New Yorker or the "papery" Le Monde."