Definition of Pasteboard

1. Noun. Stiff cardboard made by pasting together layers of paper.

Generic synonyms: Cardboard, Composition Board
Specialized synonyms: Millboard

Definition of Pasteboard

1. 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.

Definition of Pasteboard

1. Noun. (usually uncountable) card stock ¹

2. Noun. (computing countable) A common widget that can be used by multiple users to paste items or text to. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pasteboard

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pasteboard

past tense
past tenses
past times
pasta
pasta salad
pasta sauce
pastable
pastalike
pastance
pastances
pastas
paste-egg
paste-up
paste egg
pasteboard (current term)
pasteboards
pasted
pastedown
pastedowns
pastegh
pastel
pastel de nata
pasteless
pastelike
pastelist
pastelists
pastellist
pastellists
pastels

Literary usage of Pasteboard

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1827)
"The Art of Working in pasteboard, upon Scientific Principles. ... Now, working hi pasteboard, we contend, may be made as frivolous an occupation, ..."

2. China: Its Costume, Arts, Manufactures, &c. by Breton (Jean Baptiste Joseph), Henri-Léonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin (1813)
"A. TOYMAN—ANt) A pasteboard HORSE, WHICH GIVES THK BOY THE APPEARANCE Of i BEING ... ern provinces of France, is a pasteboard horse, with a hole in the ..."

3. China: Its Costume, Arts, Manufactures, &c. by Breton (Jean Baptiste Joseph), Henri-Léonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin (1813)
"THE toys of Chinese children are, in many respects, similar to the European toys; they are small figures made of painted pasteboard or wood, ..."

4. Complete Mineral Catalog by Warren Mathews Foote (1909)
"Each oak tray is fitted with 25 white pasteboard trays measuring 4^ x 3»/16 in. ... Two of these 12x9 cm. pasteboard trays are interchangeable with one ..."

5. China: Its Costume, Arts, Manufactures, &c. by Henri-Léonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin (1813)
"THE toys of Chinese children are, m many respects, similar to the European. toys; they are small figures made of painted pasteboard or wood, ..."

6. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"appropriate. gesting the paste of cookery: spec, pastel, dope, electuary, magma, strass; see COSMETIC, CEMENT. pasteboard, n. board (short for "pasteboard"; ..."

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