PASTEBOARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pasteboard mean? 

• PASTEBOARD (noun)
  The noun PASTEBOARD has 1 sense:

1. stiff cardboard made by pasting together layers of paper

  Familiarity information: PASTEBOARD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASTEBOARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stiff cardboard made by pasting together layers of paper

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("pasteboard" is a kind of...):

cardboard; composition board (a stiff moderately thick paper)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pasteboard"):

millboard (stout pasteboard used to bind books)

 Context examples 

Suddenly I came upon a pasteboard placard, beautifully written, which was lying on the desk, and bore these words: “TAKE CARE OF HIM. HE BITES.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Next morning, Miss Scatcherd wrote in conspicuous characters on a piece of pasteboard the word Slattern, and bound it like a phylactery round Helen's large, mild, intelligent, and benign-looking forehead.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Very clever were some of their productions, pasteboard guitars, antique lamps made of old-fashioned butter boats covered with silver paper, gorgeous robes of old cotton, glittering with tin spangles from a pickle factory, and armor covered with the same useful diamond shaped bits left in sheets when the lids of preserve pots were cut out.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The book I had a mind to read, was put up leaning against the wall: I first mounted to the upper step of the ladder, and turning my face towards the book, began at the top of the page, and so walking to the right and left about eight or ten paces, according to the length of the lines, till I had gotten a little below the level of mine eyes, and then descending gradually till I came to the bottom: after which I mounted again, and began the other page in the same manner, and so turned over the leaf, which I could easily do with both my hands, for it was as thick and stiff as a pasteboard, and in the largest folios not above eighteen or twenty feet long.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Two miserable little white mice, left behind by their owner, are running up and down in a fusty castle made of pasteboard and wire, looking in all the corners with their red eyes for anything to eat.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)