Definitions
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- adjective having a rough edge; used of handmade paper or paper resembling handmade
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Examples
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The rust had eaten the edges of the sign so it looked like deckled Tiziano paper.
Unexpected Alphabets No 1 Peter Ashley 2008
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Each card in this project is postcard sized, laminated, and has added deckled edges.
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The story begins like all classicall tales, there are pretty illustrations accompanying the text, a nicely done deckled edge and the books as a whole are overall quite adorable.
Catherynne M. Valente - The Orphan's Tales Duology (Book Review) 2008
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The story begins like all classicall tales, there are pretty illustrations accompanying the text, a nicely done deckled edge and the books as a whole are overall quite adorable.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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Giant bait balls of sardines deckled and thrashed the surface, while hundreds of small terns and a few wide-winged frigate birds swooped over them.
Kook Peter Heller 2010
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I''ll guess and say that deckled means the page edges aren't all aligned and look kind of rough?
A Meme Regarding Books Kev 2009
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I''ll guess and say that deckled means the page edges aren't all aligned and look kind of rough?
Archive 2009-04-01 Kev 2009
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I expect a plethora of new reading trails to open up the minute I read all these over the next few months and for that I must be truly thankful and therefore think I can forgive the absence of a French flap and a deckled edge just this once.
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The object itself is a beautiful piece of bookmaking with a classy jacket and deckled edged paper.
Bruce Harris: "The First Tycoon": A Good News Publishing Backstory 2009
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The object itself is a beautiful piece of bookmaking with a classy jacket and deckled edged paper.
Bruce Harris: "The First Tycoon": A Good News Publishing Backstory 2009
reesetee commented on the word deckled
Having a rough edge; used to describe handmade paper or paper meant to resemble handmade.
You see these edges nowadays in fancy-schmancy leatherbound hardcovers, but usually it's done by machine. :-)
February 21, 2007
yarb commented on the word deckled
Squirrelprick Press is producing my
latest, Blood Drops in distich,
hand-[deckled
limp-covered rag,Special Edition of ten.]
- Peter Reading, Going On, 1985
June 19, 2009