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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

Then the plates and the type were inked, thick wove paper was bought, the 48 pages were printed, sewn up and limp-bound, and lo! – the lump of lead had become a book.

What is the difference between an engraving and a lithograph, between cream-laid paper and wove paper, between magenta and cerise?

But this of course is negative evidence, and this value may yet be found to have been printed upon the wove paper along with the other two values in 1851.

One of twenty-five copies printed on wove paper.

Grey wove paper wrappers, decorated with bands and printed in blue on front, back and ends.

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