rag paper

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noun
  1. a high-quality paper made from cotton or linen pulp.

Origin of rag paper

1
First recorded in 1825–35

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How to use rag paper in a sentence

  • Whether the best wood paper will last as long as the best rag paper, time only can tell.

    Makers of Many Things | Eva March Tappan
  • It has been printed from new type on pure rag paper, specially made for this edition.

    Fifty Years of Golf | Horace G. Hutchinson
  • A 15th-century book on rag paper is as good to-day as the day it was printed.

    Books Before Typography | Frederick W. Hamilton
  • This thing of yours that you call a Pardon of Sins, it is a bit of rag-paper with ink.

    An English Grammar | W. M. Baskervill and J. W. Sewell
  • Yet it remained for a wasp and Gottfried Keller to bring us out of the era of rag paper.

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