deckle-edged
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of deckle-edged
First recorded in 1885–90
Example Sentences
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She was seen as a natural successor, yet she operates from a different vantage from that of many of her peers, who base decisions on deckle-edged intuition.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2020
Books also furnished the room, including the poems of Rumi and a deckle-edged paperback of Kerouac’s “On the Road.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2019
Too many poems are just deckle-edged snapshots in words.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2011
He had gone away dog-tired, his nerves deckle-edged, and almost willing to give in and give up.
From Time Magazine Archive
Printed direct from type on Dickinson's deckle-edged paper, and illustrated with folded map, portrait, and plates, in one volume, 8vo, about 225 pages, cloth, uncut.
From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Maximilian, Alexander Philipp
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