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wove paper

noun

paper that exhibits a pattern of fine mesh when held up to the light.

wove paper

noun

paper with a very faint mesh impressed on it by the dandy roller on the paper-making machine Compare laid paper

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Word History and Origins

Origin of wove paper¹

First recorded in 1805–15

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Then the plates and the type were inked, thick wove paper was bought, the 48 pages were printed, sewn up and limp-bound, and lo! – the lump of lead had become a book.

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�� is the difference between an engraving and a lithograph, between cream-laid paper and wove paper, between magenta and cerise?

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But this of course is negative evidence, and this value may yet be found to have been printed upon the wove paper along with the other two values in 1851.

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One of twenty-five copies printed on wove paper.

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Grey wove paper wrappers, decorated with bands and printed in blue on front, back and ends.

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woven Wovoka

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