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rag paper

noun

  1. a high-quality paper made from cotton or linen pulp.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of rag paper1

First recorded in 1825–35

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Example Sentences

Whether the best wood paper will last as long as the best rag paper, time only can tell.

It has been printed from new type on pure rag paper, specially made for this edition.

A 15th-century book on rag paper is as good to-day as the day it was printed.

This thing of yours that you call a Pardon of Sins, it is a bit of rag-paper with ink.

Yet it remained for a wasp and Gottfried Keller to bring us out of the era of rag paper.

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