Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A variety of stout paper made in large sizes, and designed for use in making drawings.
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Examples
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There was nothing in it, Mr Cecil said, but drawing-paper and a few coloured pencils.
Tour de Force Brand, Christianna, 1907- 1955
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The scenery everywhere is far beyond our sketching capacities, but we find spoiling many sheets of drawing-paper a never-failing amusement and occupation; and we can sit out anywhere, as neither snakes nor mosquitoes are known in these altitudes.
A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba Cecil Hall
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My mother's paint-box was on a shelf in our closet, with three sheets of her drawing-paper still in it.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 Various
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Let him adopt one; buy him drawing-paper and a tee-square at once, and teach him that the noblest work of creation is (unless it be a bricklayer or builder) an architect.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 18th, 1920 Various
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-- The illuminating body mentioned is used on parchment and hot-pressed drawing-paper.
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 357, October 30, 1886 Various
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At this village the sedater portion of the party were to settle down with books, pencils and drawing-paper until the Alpine visit should have been paid.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various
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A decision must be come to, and that rapidly; and there the artist sits, his watch hung up before him, "one eye on the dial and the other on the drawing-paper," knowing that at the appointed hour the work must be ready for the messenger.
The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann
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The room was always a little untidy; the table by the window was littered with tubes and paint-boxes, sketch-books and sheets of drawing-paper; Jenny kicked brushes and painting rags under it as she was laying the tea.
Jenny: A Novel 1921
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His complexion had the color and general appearance of drawing-paper, and in his large blue eyes was an eerie hint of sightlessness.
The Yellow Claw Sax Rohmer 1921
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Under this letter was hidden a crude little sketch of the cloister-end of some building on a sheet of drawing-paper, and near it, just outside a high wall, a fair outline of a thick cypress.
Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon 1918
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