Bristol board

noun

Bristol board

First recorded in 1800–10

For glazed surface paper, as Bristol-board, the smoothest rubber must be used, the grade termed velvet rubber answering well.

A finished book-cover design can be made on water-color paper, bristol-board, or a piece of book-cover linen.

A man's card is usually one and a half by three inches in size, and made of fairly stiff bristol board.

It must be of plain white bristol board, unglazed, about three or four inches in length and about two inches in width.

Cut in the Bristol-board a couple of leaf-shaped pieces like the illustration.

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