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blotting paper
noun
- a soft, absorbent, unsized paper, used especially to dry the ink on a piece of writing.
blotting paper
noun
- a soft absorbent unsized paper, used esp for soaking up surplus ink
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Word History and Origins
Origin of blotting paper1
First recorded in 1510–20
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Example Sentences
Next dry with clean blotting-paper to take off any superfluous water.
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Soak some clean blotting paper in the hyposulphite-of-soda solution and allow it to dry.
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To avoid this the paper may be dried somewhat by the application of clean blotting paper.
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She had been sitting by a table on which a large sheet of pink blotting paper was spread before writing materials.
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It is exactly on the same principle that if the end of a piece of blotting paper is immersedp.
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