bad paper

noun

, Slang.

One of these is the prevalence of bad paper, overladen with clay and with Modern methods.

Learn how to make that infernal note-book perfectly all right in spite of the bad paper.

No man exceeded him in the art of rose-tinting bad paper or parchment.

Experiments had eaten up twenty thousand francs; and the result, said gossip, was wretchedly bad paper.

April 24, 2024gallimaufry

[gal-uh-maw-free ]

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