India paper

American  

noun

1. a fine, thin, opaque paper made in Asia, used chiefly in the production of thin-paper editions and for impressions of engravings.

2. Bible paper.

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India paper British  

noun

1. a thin soft opaque printing paper made in the Orient

2. another name (not in technical usage) for Bible paper

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Etymology

Origin of India paper

First recorded in 1760–70

Example Sentences

Templetown’s role as a designer consisted of drawing her touching scenes in pencil or cutting them out of India paper.

From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2011

The Black Bird, explained visiting Editor Nitti, is printed at Paris in editions of 12,000 on thinnest India paper.

From Time Magazine Archive

And he brought out the tightly folded sheet of India paper just as the two halves of the acorn fell apart in her hands, showing it to be empty.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

The report she wrote took up four sheets of the special India paper she used, even cramming her writing as tightly as she could and using a super-sharp hard pencil.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

No. 49 of fifty large paper copies printed, illustrated by the insertion of two sepia drawings and nine portraits, some proofs and some on India paper.

From A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 1 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe by Various