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Definition of Tissue paper

1. Noun. A soft thin (usually translucent) paper.

Definition of Tissue paper

1. Noun. Thin, translucent paper used for wrapping or for protecting delicate articles. ¹

2. Noun. An unspecified product made of tissue (absorbent paper), such as bathroom tissue, paper handkerchief or household towel. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Tissue paper

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

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"From the testimony it appears that it was what is generally called " tissue paper," and was mainly if not exclusively used for making letterpress copies of ..."

2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1903)
"Strips of gray cardboard are slipped in between the tissue paper and the ... The tissue paper may be turned up (by the cardboard strip along its lower edge) ..."

3. The Popular Science Monthly (1884)
"The cell containing the object-glass must first be slid into one end of the large tube, and made to fit neatly, by even-wrapping with tissue-paper or ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"A sheet of bibulous tissue paper moistened with water to a certain degree is laid on the face of the writing, a sheet of oiled paper is laid on the tissue ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"A sheet of bibulous tissue paper moistened with water to a certain degree is laid on the face of the writing, a sheet of oiled paper is laid on the tissue ..."

6. United States Compiled Statutes, Annotated, 1916: Embracing the Statutes of by United States, John Allan Mallory (1917)
"tissue paper.—An absorbent paper used by dentists held not dutiable as ... tissue paper for making letterpress copies of written matter held within the ..."

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