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wove paper

noun

  1. paper that exhibits a pattern of fine mesh when held up to the light.


wove paper

noun

  1. paper with a very faint mesh impressed on it by the dandy roller on the paper-making machine Compare laid paper
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of wove paper1

First recorded in 1805–15
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Example Sentences

(V) Small 8vo, vii 334 pages, printed on English antique wove paper, silk-cloth boards.

Nevertheless there appear to be several used copies of the wove paper 12d.

(the thin wove paper): "We took a six-pence from a letter dated June 25th, 1852."

If such be the case, it is only a step further to the entire disappearance of these "laid lines," and lo, the wove paper!

Yet the catalog value of the latter is $2.50 against 36 cents for the wove paper imperforate alone.

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