Pasteboard
['peɪs(t)bɔːd] or ['pest'bɔrd]
Definition
(noun.) stiff cardboard made by pasting together layers of paper.
Editor: Rodney--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A stiff thick kind of paper board, formed of several single sheets pasted one upon another, or of paper macerated and pressed into molds, etc.
(n.) A board on which pastry dough is rolled; a molding board.
Typist: Nelly
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of pasteboard, denotes that unfaithful friends will deceive you concerning important matters. To cut pasteboard, you will throw aside difficulties in your struggle to reach eminent positions.
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Examples
- Poririer, a Frenchman, invented a machine for making match boxes of pasteboard. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The solid body they employed was a thin pasteboard cylinder covered with wax. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Trills of melody were heard behind the scenes, and gurgling from a sweet pasteboard cottage covered with roses and trellis work. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- They were long narrow cigarettes with pasteboard cylinders for mouthpieces. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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