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deckle-edged

[ dek-uhl-ejd ]

adjective

  1. having a deckle edge:

    deckle-edged paper for stationery.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of deckle-edged1

First recorded in 1885–90

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Example Sentences

A word from me was more to them than a whole deckle-edged library from East Aurora in sectional bookcases was from anybody else.

Printed on deckle-edged paper, with gilt top, and bound in cloth.

Mr. Lawson's proclamations and market communications are invariably printed on the finest grade of deckle-edged paper.

The immediate result of this interchange of deckle-edged insults was to daze the public.

It is handsomely printed in large Caslon type on Dickinson's deckle-edged paper.

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