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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

Example Sentences

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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

Citizens grew accustomed to eating library paste, boiled leather, and bread baked with cottonseed cake, even sawdust and cellulose.

From Time Magazine Archive

If they have also blunt scissors for cutting all sorts of colored papers and a bottle of innocuous library paste, they will be able to amuse themselves at almost any time.

From Study of Child Life by Washburne, Marion Foster