Manila paper

American  

noun

1. strong, light-brown or buff paper, originally made from Manila hemp but now also from wood pulp substitutes and various other fibers.

2. any paper resembling Manila paper.

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Manila paper British  

noun

1. a strong usually brown paper made from Manila hemp or similar fibres

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Etymology

Origin of Manila paper

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

But perhaps the most important and reliable visual record of June 25, 1876, comes from someone who was there: Red Horse, a Lakota Sioux chief who, drawing from memory five years after the fighting, used colored pencils and manila paper to create a suite of 42 unsparing images chronicling the horrific battle in which he’d fought.

From Los Angeles Times

I flipped through her part of the manila paper file.

From Literature

I got a piece of manila paper.

From Slate

Over the canton flannel, but not extending over to the sides, there should be pasted a good quality of linen, rope or manila paper of sufficient thickness to make the book firm.

From Project Gutenberg

One of these should be a 60-pound and the other an 80-pound manila paper, both guarded entirely around the fold with jaconet.

From Project Gutenberg