laid paper

American  

noun

1. paper with fine parallel and cross lines produced in manufacturing.

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laid paper British  

noun

1. paper with a regular mesh impressed upon it by the dandy roller on a paper-making machine Compare wove paper

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Etymology

Origin of laid paper

First recorded in 1830–40

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Example Sentences

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laid paper

One was laid paper, formed by being stretched across wires that left visible lines spaced about an inch apart.

From Time Magazine Archive

They laid paper over her face, and cut a hole in the paper to expose only her teeth, just as the Philadelphia coroner had done for her father.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

For the first, or "laid" paper, the small wires run the length of the cylinder and the stouter ones around it.

From Makers of Many Things by Eva March Tappan

New Editions, crown 32mo, printed on antique laid paper, and neatly bound in cloth, price 6d. each; also in paste grain, gilt edges, 1s.

From W.P. Nimmo Catalogue, Selected List, 1890 by Various

But after that date its manufacture increased with such rapidity that by 1805 it had supplanted laid paper for many printing purposes.

From Why Bewick Succeeded A Note in the History of Wood Engraving by Jacob Kainen

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