"lathery" meaning in English

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          "text": "This new shaving cream isn't as lathery as the old stuff: there just aren't as many bubbles to be had."
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          "text": "1824, James Atkinson, “Peer Mahommud; The Moralist,” stanza 51, in The City of Palaces, Calcutta: Government Gazette Press, p. 128,\nThus rapidly my little tale advances,\nAnd now we come to him, who lives to shave!\nThe lathery Knight of Razors, not of lances,\nAnd without question more a fool than knave."
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          "ref": "1906, E. Nesbit, chapter 7, in The Railway Children:",
          "text": "“Oh, no!” said Bobbie, greatly shocked; “you don’t rub muslin. You put the boiled soap in the hot water and make it all frothy-lathery—and then you shake the muslin and squeeze it, ever so gently, and all the dirt comes out. […]”",
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          "ref": "1931, Langston Hughes, “People without Shoes”, in I Wonder As I Wander, New York: Hill and Wang, published 1993, page 28:",
          "text": "They wash their clothes in running streams with lathery weeds—too poor to buy soap.",
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          "ref": "1957, James Agee, A Death in the Family, New York: Bantam, Part 1, Chapter 2, p. 26:",
          "text": "He cleaned up the basin and flushed the lathery, hairy bits of toilet paper down the water closet.",
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        "Resembling or covered in lather."
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          "roman": "nasapunisan",
          "sense": "resembling or covered in lather",
          "word": "насапунисан"
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          "sense": "resembling or covered in lather",
          "word": "schaumig"
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          "sense": "resembling or covered in lather",
          "word": "schäumend"
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          "sense": "resembling or covered in lather",
          "word": "löddrig"
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      "sense": "resembling or covered in lather",
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      "sense": "resembling or covered in lather",
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      "sense": "resembling or covered in lather",
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