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Definition of Paste-up
1. Noun. A composition of flat objects pasted on a board or other backing. "They showed him a paste-up of the book jacket"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paste-up
Literary usage of Paste-up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Chinese and English Vocabulary in the Pekinese Dialect by George Carter Stent (1871)
"to fold up clothes. to stick to, to paste against, to attach to; to lose.
to assist with money; to lose money in trade. to paste up. ri to paste up a ..."
2. The Chinese Repository edited by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Willaims (1851)
"Placing money below the door, or a pearl in the inner room, is done to confer
happiness and felicity on the dwelling. " Those who paste up the word chun ..."
3. The Economical Cook Book: A Practical Guide for Housekeepers in the by Sara T. Paul (1905)
"Paste up next day with letter-paper, lay a piece on top of the jelly to fit inside
... fill your glasses, set away until next day, then cover and paste up. ..."
4. Small Arms Firing Manual 1913 by United States War Dept (1914)
"... spotters are used care must be taken to paste up a shot hole as soon as the
spotter is removed and also to paste up any shot hole in the spotter itself. ..."
5. Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia (1858)
"Those who put money in the mouth of the corpse ; or put rice m jars, to be buried
with the dead; or paste up blue papers at the doors; or place a burning ..."
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