Definitions
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- adjective resembling a thin crisp wafer
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Examples
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The Ritz sofa, created for the Dutch firm Gelderland by Rotterdam designer Bertjan Pot, has a wafer-like simplicity set off by its stiletto legs.
Finding Tomorrow's Heirlooms Today J. S. Marcus 2011
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The thought of it is much worse than the actuality it had a wafer-like consistency.
Reason For Not Eating Out #39: Because the Hair In My Food Is Always Mine 2010
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The peels are going to be thin, translucent, more wafer-like.
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They came out perfectly crisp and thin but not so thin they were wafer-like.
crisp salted oatmeal white chocolate cookies | smitten kitchen 2008
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First he took from his bag a mass of what looked like thin, wafer-like biscuit, which was carefully rolled up in a white napkin.
Dracula 2003
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True, the bread and butter was of wafer-like thinness, there were hot cakes of the crispest, finest variety, and the plum-cake which was Martha's welcome to the bride was of the richest, most tempting description.
The Making of a Soul Kathlyn Rhodes
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Tea was served in small Chinese bowls with preserved fruits, ginger and wafer-like cakes.
The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure Lizette M. Edholm
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If you like crusts that are crisp do not cover the loaves; but to give the soft, tender, wafer-like consistency which many prefer, wrap them while still hot in several thicknesses of bread-cloth.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette
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A short run took us over the few rapids that remained, and at a turn ahead we saw a 300-foot ridge, brilliantly tinted in many colours, -- light and golden yellows, orange and red, purple and lavender, -- and composed of numberless wafer-like layers of rock, uptilted, so that the broken ends looked like the spines of a gigantic fish's back.
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Something was lying there, a thin, wafer-like packet of papers, the papers for which the Firefly of France had shed his blood.
The Firefly of France Marion Polk Angellotti 1936
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