单词 | tissue-paper |
释义 | tissue-papern. A very thin soft gauze-like unsized paper, used for wrapping delicate articles, for covering engravings or other illustrations in books, as copying-paper, etc. Various grades are distinguished, as silver tissue, specially prepared for wrapping silver ware; copying tissue, for copying letters, etc.; printing tissue: see tissue n. 6. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > [noun] > thin paper or tissue-paper tissue-paper1777 tissue1780 silk paper1796 silver paper1800 pelure1887 Japanese tissue1900 washi1978 1777 Henly in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 67 114 A number of circular pieces of tissue-paper. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 161 The paper must be of that kind called tissue or silver paper. 1854 H. Keddie Phemie Millar 24 Encasing in tissue paper a set of ivory handled knives. 1865 J. R. Lowell Wks. (1890) V. 285 Leaping through a hoop with nothing more substantial to resist than tissue-paper. 1880 G. C. M. Birdwood Indian Arts II. 75 The flimsy paper called tissue-paper was originally made to place between the tissue to prevent its fraying or tarnishing when folded. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1777 |
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