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LAID PAPER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does laid paper mean?
• LAID PAPER (noun)
The noun LAID PAPER has 1 sense:
1. writing paper having a watermark of fine lines running across the grain
Familiarity information: LAID PAPER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Writing paper having a watermark of fine lines running across the grain
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("laid paper" is a kind of...):
writing paper (paper material made into thin sheets that are sized to take ink; used for writing correspondence and manuscripts)
Context examples
The note is written upon ordinary cream-laid paper without watermark.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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