rag paper
noun
a high-quality paper made from cotton or linen pulp.
Origin of rag paper
1First recorded in 1825–35
Words Nearby rag paper
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How to use rag paper in a sentence
Whether the best wood paper will last as long as the best rag paper, time only can tell.
Makers of Many Things | Eva March TappanIt has been printed from new type on pure rag paper, specially made for this edition.
Fifty Years of Golf | Horace G. HutchinsonA 15th-century book on rag paper is as good to-day as the day it was printed.
Books Before Typography | Frederick W. HamiltonThis thing of yours that you call a Pardon of Sins, it is a bit of rag-paper with ink.
An English Grammar | W. M. Baskervill and J. W. SewellYet it remained for a wasp and Gottfried Keller to bring us out of the era of rag paper.
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