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

Word History and Origins

Origin of wove paper¹

First recorded in 1805–15

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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