watermark
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4.4
- noun
- /ˈwɔːtərˌmɑrk/
:
marca de agua
- The paper had the watermark of a Continental soldier, musket in hand, pointing to the legend Pro Patria.
An inch of white impressed like watermarks on cotton rag paper over the pen strokes of residual grass.
- An inch of white impressed like watermarks on cotton rag paper over the pen strokes of residual grass.
Examples
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A watermark identical to the portrait is visible from both sides when held up to a light.
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Watercolor paper sheets usually contain a watermark in one of the corners that can be viewed when held in front of a light source and tilted.
Academic text (2015) -
Someone else was holding a piece of paper with writing on it up to the light, possibly looking for a watermark.
Fiction book (1991) -
Cheap paper with no watermark.
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I looked for the watermark in the stationery.
Academic text (1992) -
There was a little notebook tucked inside with a cute little elephant watermark on the pages.
Blog text (4) -
The strong, coarsely ribbed paper bears the watermark of a gothic 'p' with a flower, which between 1460 and c. 1530 was the most widespread mark in the Rhinelands, from the Upper to the Lower Rhine, in the Netherlands, and in Burgundy.
Academic text (1995) -
The cream-colored paper was heavy and stamped with a watermark.
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You should be able to see a clear and distinct watermark portrait of Yusof Ishak on the left side of the note.
Synonyms
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4.2
A mark made when something presses into a surface or the tool that makes it
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Watermark comes from old paper-making, where a pattern was pressed into wet pulp so it leaves a faint 'mark' you can see when you hold the page to the light. That's why banknotes and good paper have watermarks to show they are real.