library paste
Americannoun
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
From peanuts he made nearly 300 substances; from sweet potatoes 118, including starch, vinegar, shoe-blacking, library paste, candy.
From Time Magazine Archive
A former college English teacher, the shamus speaks in Victorian grandiloquent, and the burden of his remarks is composed of snippets from the Great Books and library paste.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were fuzzy wash-cloths—a particular fancy of hers—and new library paste and new hair-pins, and a can-opener that made her exclaim: "Bert, that was cute of you!" and even an alligator pear.
From Undertow by Norris, Kathleen Thompson
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