deliquescent - to melt, dissolve - esp. to turn into liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.
Even in Bergotte's books, all those Chinese pizzles of form, all those subtleties of a deliquescent mandarin seem to me to be quite futile.
Even in Bergotte's books, all those Chinese pizzles of form, all those subtleties of a deliquescent mandarin seem to me to be quite futile.