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The Collaborative International Dictionary
cellophane

cellophane \cellophane\ (s[e^]l"[-o]*f[=a]n`), n. a transparent paper-like product made of regenerated cellulose, produced in sheets and rolls, which is impervious to moisture and germs, and which is used to wrap candy, cigarettes, and a wide variety of other products for distribution and retail sale; as, a pack of cigarettes in a cellophane wrapper.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cellophane

1912, trademark name for a flexible, transparent product made from regenerated cellulose, coined by the inventor, Swiss chemist Jacques E. Brandenberger (1872-1954), probably from cellulose + connective o + -phane.

Wiktionary
cellophane

n. Any of a variety of transparent plastic films, especially one made of processed cellulose. vb. (context transitive English) To wrap or package in cellophane.

WordNet
cellophane

n. a transparent paper-like product that is impervious to moisture and used to wrap candy or cigarettes etc.

Wikipedia
Cellophane

Cellophane is a thin, transparent sheet made of regenerated cellulose. Its low permeability to air, oils, greases, bacteria, and water makes it useful for food packaging. "Cellophane" is in many countries a registered trade mark of Innovia Films Ltd based in Wigton, Cumbria, United Kingdom.

Cellophane (band)

Cellophane was an alternative metal/ rock band from California. They released a single eponymous album in 1997.

Cellophane (disambiguation)

Cellophane is a thin transparent sheet made from regenerated cellulose.

Cellophane may also refer to:

  • Cellophane (band), a Californian rock band
  • Cellophane (album), a 2006 album by Heroes & Zeros
  • Cellophane, a 1967 album by The Troggs
  • Cellophane noodles
Cellophane (song)

"Cellophane" is a 1988 single by That Petrol Emotion.
The 12" B-side "Hot Head" is a Captain Beefheart song from the album Doc at the Radar Station (1980).

Usage examples of "cellophane".

Atherton was the kind of woman who kept candles out for a centerpiece with the cellophane still wrapped around them.

As he cracked the cellophane wrapping, Miller glanced into the briefcase and noticed Corde staring at a photo taped to the inside.

Susan had a plastic bag that contained two liters of bottled water, a lot of cellophane bags filled with snacks, and a road map.

He took a cigar out of his pocket and made masturbatory motions up and down the cellophane wrapper.

She loves to run her fingers down the surface of an unopened game, stroke the cellophane skin of a prepackaged baby doll.

I took them from him, hugged him, and lowered my face to smell the white lilac, tulips, narcissi, and daffodils wrapped in cellophane paper and tied with a big yellow bow.

There were crumbled cellophane wrappers from Twinkies and some empty Sugar Pops boxes, some tattered clothes, torn comic books, but otherwise nothing.

Tyson opened a cellophane packet of stateside Nabisco cream-filled sugar wafers that his sister had sent him and passed it to Kelly, then to Brandt.

Unfortunately, the candy wrappers from the room above the cave were too smudged to get a print match, and the peculiar folding of the cellophane is only circumstantial evidence and not very conclusive.

Carrying the Epsom salts and a piece of the baklava wrapped in cellophane, I came out of the house and walked along the portico past the courtyard and bathhouse to the guesthouse behind.

There were paper plates strewing the floor, cellophane wrappers and white pasteboard backings from old cupcakes, chicken bones in red-striped tubs streaked with cold grease.

People sat at card tables facing the stage and a combo back-lit by more blue lights: blinkers covered with cellophane.

I could see gravel and fragments of cellophane and plastic in cornrows below the cop’s right shoulder.

Carol took one of the tongue depressors out of its crisp cellophane wrapper-just in case.

Carol took one of the tongue depressors out of its crisp cellophane wrapper—just in case.