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  • adjective of paper Laid (marked with parallel lines, as if ribbed) and cream in colour.

Etymologies

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cream +‎ laid

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Examples

  • It was from a countess, and was written on pink paper, beautifully creamlaid and scented, ornamented with a coronet and certain singularly-entwined initial.

    The Small House at Allington 2004

  • Charing Cross, London, W. C.: 1 pack of 1 dozen creamlaid envelopes and feintruled notepaper, watermarked, now reduced by 3: some assorted Austrian-Hungarian coins: 2 coupons of the Royal and Privileged

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • It was from a countess, and was written on pink paper, beautifully creamlaid and scented, ornamented with a coronet and certain singularly-entwined initials.

    The Small House at Allington Anthony Trollope 1848

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