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onionskin

[ uhn-yuhn-skin ]

noun

  1. a thin, lightweight, translucent, glazed paper, used especially for making carbon copies.


onionskin

/ ˈʌnjənˌskɪn /

noun

  1. a glazed translucent paper
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of onionskin1

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80; onion + skin
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Example Sentences

This married 47-year-old mother took a liking to him, to put it mildly, and started leaving notes written on blue onionskin paper in his locker.

I scoured the onionskin pages of Hemmings Motor News in search of what the English call a “well-sorted” car: mechanically sound but far from concours, one that I wouldn’t be afraid to drive.

A real pleasure of these books was the struggle to turn their onionskin pages, with even the 900-page “Bleak House” coming in at less than an inch thick.

By the end of the year, I felt tired and overwhelmed, ready to peel away onionskin layers of regret.

In other words, it is business as usual in Wisconsin, a partisan hothouse where elections can turn on onionskin margins and every ballot is potential booty in a political death struggle.

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