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library paste

American  

noun

  1. a white, smooth paste for paper and lightweight cardboard.


Etymology

Origin of library paste

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

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“In 1944, I probably tasted more library paste than it took me to make this collage.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2018

Much like cafeteria food and library paste, chalk dust simply smelled like school.

From Time • Apr. 27, 2015

Citizens grew accustomed to eating library paste, boiled leather, and bread baked with cottonseed cake, even sawdust and cellulose.

From Time Magazine Archive

A former college English teacher, the shamus speaks in Victorian grandiloquent, and the burden of his remarks is composed of snippets from the Great Books and library paste.

From Time Magazine Archive

Colored tissue papers, scissors and library paste are always in demand.

From A Catalogue of Play Equipment by Hunt, Jean Lee