deckle-edged

[ dek-uhl-ejd ]

adjective

1. having a deckle edge:

   deckle-edged paper for stationery.

Word History and Origins

Origin of deckle-edged¹

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

A word from me was more to them than a whole deckle-edged library from East Aurora in sectional bookcases was from anybody else.

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Printed on deckle-edged paper, with gilt top, and bound in cloth.

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Mr. Lawson's proclamations and market communications are invariably printed on the finest grade of deckle-edged paper.

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The immediate result of this interchange of deckle-edged insults was to daze the public.

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It is handsomely printed in large Caslon type on Dickinson's deckle-edged paper.

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