| 单词 | paper town |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspaper town paper town n. North American (a) a town that is planned but not actually founded; (b) a town or city supported by the papermaking industry. ΚΠ 1819 E. Evans Pedestrious Tour 228 On this river too is General Simcoe's paper town called London. 1856 W. A. Phillips Conquest of Kansas 118 [He went] to Lecompton, then merely a paper town without a house. 1957 B. Hutchison Canada 307 Logging camps, mills, paper towns, the new aluminium town of Kitimat..pour their products into Vancouver. 1971 P. Berton Last Spike i. iii. 29 ‘I don't see any town,’ Canning said, as he climbed down. ‘Well it is only a paper town yet,’ his acquaintance replied. < as lemmas |
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