Crossword-Solution: CELLULOID
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Celluloid | n. | A substance composed essentially of gun cotton and camphor, and when pure resembling ivory in texture and color, but variously colored to imitate coral, tortoise shell, amber, malachite, etc. It is used in the manufacture of jewelry and many small articles, as combs, brushes, collars, and cuffs; -- originally called xylonite. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “CELLULOID”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A kind of transparent plastic formerly used for cinema film | 1 answer |
| PLASTIC material, first commercially made | 1 answer |
| PLASTIC, first modern | 1 answer |
| TABLE-tennis ball material | 1 answer |
| highly flammable substance made from cellulose nitrate and camphor | 1 answer |
| used in e.g. motion-picture and X-ray film | 1 answer |
| xylonite | 1 answer |
| TRANSPARENT substance | 2 answers |
| cellulose nitrate | 4 answers |
| cinema film | 5 answers |
| __ film | 80 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CELLULOID (5)
Gracious, what a weird film this is!" The fantastic absurdities of Tarzan proceeded on the screen, tearing celluloid passions to tatters, but Aubrey found the strong man of the jungle coming almost too close to his own imperious instincts.
Ten years before, Ferdinand Brandeis had bought a large bill of Christmas fancy-goods--celluloid toilette sets, leather collar boxes, velvet glove cases.
There is a Colonial air about her that has nothing to do with celluloid combs and imitation jet barrettes.
Pat, the orchestra, put on a dress coat and vest and a "dickey"; the coat had white celluloid cuffs pinned in the sleeves at the wrists.
These were Macnab and Wilkie: the one a decent middle-aged man with a fresh-washed face and a celluloid collar, the other a round-shouldered youth, with lank hair and the large eyes and luminous skin which are the marks of phthisis.
Quotes with CELLULOID (3)
When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt — we are phantoms in the memories of our descendants. Then we are ghosts, my dear, then we are myths. But still we are together. We are the past together, we are a distant past. Beneath the dome of the mysterious stars, I still hear your voice.
Nobody has ever taken a photograph of something they want to forget. We can build a wall of happy Kodak moments around ourselves, a wall of our Christmases, birthdays, baby showers and weddings, but we can never forget that celluloid film is see-through, that behind it, all the misery of real life waits for our wall to collapse someday.
In her eyes was the reflection of everything that mattered: old diners with neon signs, vinyl records, celluloid film, drive-in movies, Pears soap, department stores, her brother’s old blue Camaro car and the smell of coal dust in the rainy sky of a summer lightning storm.…And all the nice bright colors of the past that she thought were gone for good came flowing back into her life like a wave of nostalgia flooding over her, reds, yellows, blues and greens drenching her gray …