laid paper
- noun
- Specialized
- Most often used for stationery or drawing, laid paper is characterized by a series of closely spaced parallel lines and heavier, more widely spaced perpendicular lines.
- watercolor on laid paper
Examples
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It's a kind of paper called laid paper LAID.
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The Workers Party for World Peace, and that's on a really nice laid paper and you can see the texture on the paper there.
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She dug into a second shoebox stuffed with bills and letters and extracted an envelope of thick cream-laid paper.
Fiction book (2001) -
The fraktur painting is on laid paper typical of the nineteenth century, showcasing its distinct textured pattern.
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Collection of the artist includes a study of Saint Sebastian created on a sheet of laid paper, illustrating its unique surface texture.
Synonyms
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Thin material made from wood pulp used for writing, printing and wrapping
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Thin paper you use to write letters by hand
How Textured
Surface Forms
Morphology
The adjective 'laid' here has a specialist papermaking sense (paper with a ribbed/textured pattern from the mould wires) rather than the common meaning 'placed' that a B1 learner would know. While it is clear that 'laid paper' denotes a property of the paper (so there is partial compositionality), the specific textured meaning is technical and not predictable from the everyday senses of the constituents.
Etymology
Laid paper: The noun laid paper comes from old paper-making, when wet fibres were laid on a wooden frame with thin wires that left fine lines across the sheet. So today, laid paper means paper with a 'lined' or 'textured' surface you can see and feel.