bond paper

American  

noun

1. a superior variety of paper usually with high cotton fiber content, especially used for stationery.

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bond paper British  

noun

1. a superior quality of strong white paper, used esp for writing and typing

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Etymology

Origin of bond paper

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

Demand for junk bond paper also grew as investors looked to replace Ford bonds with other likely winners.

From Reuters • Nov. 3, 2023

He was in the faint scent of cigar smoke that had settled into the fibers of the fine bond paper and lain dormant for months, even years, until my nose woke it up.

From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2021

“Our systems had stopped working,” one of the characters moans, “jammed with the odor of copy machines, Wite-Out, the smell of bond paper, and the endless stress of pointless jobs done grudgingly to little applause.”

From Slate • May 15, 2017

All told, the court's transcribers pecked out more than 100,000 pages of testimony, the equivalent of a 33-ft. stack of typewriter bond paper.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is formed by rolling together in a flat roll four sheets of thin bond paper, 1, 2, 3, and 4, and two somewhat narrower strips of tinfoil, 5 and 6, Fig.

From Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by Miller, Kempster