India paper

India paper

noun
1.
a fine, thin, opaque paper made in the Orient, used chiefly in the production of thin-paper editions and for impressions of engravings.

Origin:
1760–70
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India paper is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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India paper
 
n
1.  a thin soft opaque printing paper made in the Orient
2.  another name (not in technical usage) for Bible paper

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