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Word entry · 9 letters

celluloid

Best crossword clue

"Old film material"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /ˈsɛljəˌlɔɪd/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted cdeilllouStarts with CEnds with D1 cluesCommon crossword word
1C2E3L4L5U6L7O8I9D

Definitions

  1. artificial as if portrayed in a film

Word origin

Former trademark of Celluloid Manufacturing Company; from cellulose + -oid.

Used in a sentence

  • "And will you now, sir, take off your celluloid collar and permit me to burn it in the candle? Thank you, sir. And will you allow me to smash your spectacles for you with my hammer? Thank you."
  • Celluloid railway comedy was hardly to appear again until the mid-thirties and, later, in Britain.
  • In particular, they set Kerouac and Ginsberg to the specifications of an emergent superficial form—celluloid antiheroes—attractive to those in want of adventure and who would soon be reading On the Road (1957).

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