laid paper

American  

noun

1. paper with fine parallel and cross lines produced in manufacturing.

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laid paper British  

noun

1. paper with a regular mesh impressed upon it by the dandy roller on a paper-making machine Compare wove paper

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Etymology

Origin of laid paper

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

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laid paper

One was laid paper, formed by being stretched across wires that left visible lines spaced about an inch apart.

From Time Magazine Archive

They laid paper over her face, and cut a hole in the paper to expose only her teeth, just as the Philadelphia coroner had done for her father.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

A new edition of Bunyan's immortal allegory, printed from new plates on fine laid paper, with illustrations by H. M. Brock.

From The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great by Robert H. Fuller

They were also printed in the same colors on entire envelopes of white and buff laid paper with the POD over US watermark of the regular United States stationery.

From Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery by Clifton Armstrong Howes

Thus Beerbohm’s learned book on Eggs On a laid paper he should print, But Motley’s “Dutch Republic” begs Rice paper should its matter hint.

From In the Track of the Bookworm by Irving Browne