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butcher paper

American  

noun

  1. heavy, moisture-resistant paper, as used for wrapping meat.


Example Sentences

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Kwee told me I must, if nothing else, procure a roll of butcher paper.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

Over on a side wall, the photograph’s black-and-white pictorial motif repeats again in three large-scale oil paintings on butcher paper, surely elaborated from old photographs.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2023

They started meeting up for lunch at a campus cafe called Cascadeli, where the sandwiches were big, thick, full of crunchy vegetables and wrapped in white butcher paper before being sliced in half.

From Washington Post • Jul. 14, 2022

The novel thus packages its dilemma in tidy butcher paper: Is our supposed love of animals, and occasionally theirs of us, a calculated transaction?

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2020

They were both hideous waxy ghosts on butcher paper.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson