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silver paper
Also silver-paper.
1. A fine white tissue-paper.
1800M. Edgeworth Birth-Day Present in Parent's Assistant (ed. 3) II. 14 She was obliged to go down with her basket but half wrapped up in silver paper. 1817Byron Beppo lvii, The..frontispiece of a new Magazine,..Colour'd, and silver paper leaved between That and the title-page. 1851Mayhew London Lab. I. 374/1 Those gown-pieces..are almost as thin as silver-paper. 1873R. Broughton Nancy II. 246 As if I had just emerged from the manifold silver papers of a bandbox.
attrib.1854Mrs. Gaskell North & S. iii, The pear, which he had delicately peeled in one long strip of silver-paper thinness.
2. Paper covered with silver-foil. Also, thin metal foil, used chiefly as a damp-proof wrapping for tobacco and confectionery.
1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2186/1. 1905 Strand Mag. XXIX. 274/1 He has been sorting out the pieces of ‘silver paper’, as he calls them, in which packets of tobacco are wrapped. 1929B.B.C. Year-bk. 1930 404 The balance of the subscriptions..is paid into the local Radio Circle Funds, which are further increased in various ways such as by the sale of ‘silver paper’. 1976W. Trevor Children of Dynmouth iii. 65 The one he'd taken had green silver paper on it, a chocolate-covered toffee.
3. Photogr. Paper sensitized with a silver solution.
1898H. Maclean Photogr. Print. Process xvi. 139 Those known as silver papers, such as gelatino-chloride, collodio-chloride, albumenised, and bromide papers. |