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ˈairmail
[mail n.3]
Mail conveyed by air; a service for conveying letters, parcels, etc., by air; also attrib. Hence as v. trans., to send by air.
1913Stamp Collecting 13 Dec. 210/1 There have been many other German air mail flights. 1920Lancet 11 Sept. 581/2 A Royal air mail service from London to Holland was started on July 6th. 1922Glasgow Herald 4 Apr. 9 The despatch of air-mail letters..between London and Paris. 1928Post Office Guide July 55 A special Blue Air Mail label should be affixed to the top left hand corner of every Air Mail packet. 1932S. Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm xx. 272 The papers arrived by air-mail at noon. 1942Wyndham Lewis Let. 8 July (1963) 327 This is going to be air-mailed, and a carbon of it will go by ship. 1950Lancet 8 July 70/1 Air-mail envelopes with coloured borders.
b. Applied to a type of thin paper intended for dispatch by airmail; also applied to an edition of a newspaper specially printed for conveyance by air (also called air edition).
1935Brit. Paper Summer 13/1 A new air mail paper..a tub-sized air-dried paper for air mail purposes. 1944Times Weekly 9 Aug. 7/2 The Times now publishes an Air Edition daily. This consists of..copies of full size printed on India paper. 1948Hansard Commons CDXLVI. 994 Only two of our newspapers have airmail editions. 1958Times 14 June 8/7 Among the exhibits here is a copy of the Air Mail edition of The Times, printed on paper made from Sunn Hemp..and rag. 1959Engineering 27 Feb. 262/3 [The machine] can handle a wide range of stock, from air-mail to board. |