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library paste

American  

noun

  1. a white, smooth paste for paper and lightweight cardboard.


Etymology

Origin of library paste

First recorded in 1950–55

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“In 1944, I probably tasted more library paste than it took me to make this collage.”

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 6, 2018

Much like cafeteria food and library paste, chalk dust simply smelled like school.

From Time Apr. 27, 2015

The drink's main drawback is that it tastes a good deal like liquid library paste.

From Time Magazine Archive

From peanuts he made nearly 300 substances; from sweet potatoes 118, including starch, vinegar, shoe-blacking, library paste, candy.

From Time Magazine Archive

For this, a solid, satisfactory and fairly elastic substitute can be made by mixing about equal parts of good liquid glue and ordinary white library paste of the kind which comes in tubes.

From Book Repair and Restoration by Buck, Mitchell

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