What does orange-peely mean?
Orange-peely means Resembling or characteristic of orange peel..
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Resembling or characteristic of orange peel..
THERE’S the same sawdusty, orange-peely, gasy smell; the same apparently endless stairs to climb, sir; the same wired-round gaslights; the same pushing and crushing; men laughing, women laughing or crying; the same policeman telling people not to push, or to “be easy there,” and giving other little bits of advice, as he stands behind the strong barrier opposite where the pigeon-hole is, and the man takes the shillings and gives you metal checks in exchange.
I went through orange-peely waste-paper baskets every day for weeks to find certain values of Pan-American stamps and stamped envelopes.
[…] the best way for all practical purposes to show a person how to distinguish saltglaze is to point out the peculiar orange-peely nature of the surface.
[…] are usually just as crowded, just as peanutty, and just as orange-peely as those of a North American accommodation train.
Everything’s so stale and orange-peely and fish-and-chippy!
The finish is not what it should be—paint thin, orange-peely and extremely easily chipped.
[…] lack of good agitation and filtration resulted in rough, nodular deposits, which show through to the surface (orange-peely, locally distorted effect).
The new dials, which perhaps are less objectionable than the old, when the latter are very badly cracked or patched, are often hard to detect. They do, however, tend to look rather like the photographs which they are, and also to have an “orange-peely” look when viewed along their surfaces.
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Orange-peely means Resembling or characteristic of orange peel..
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THERE’S the same sawdusty, orange-peely, gasy smell; the same apparently endless stairs to climb, sir; the same wired-round gaslights; the same pushing and crushing; men laughing, women laughing or crying; the same policeman telling people not to push, or to “be easy there,” and giving other little bits of advice, as he stands behind the strong barrier opposite where the pigeon-hole is, and the man takes the shillings and gives you metal checks in exchange.
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