LAID PAPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does laid paper mean? 

• LAID PAPER (noun)
  The noun LAID PAPER has 1 sense:

1. writing paper having a watermark of fine lines running across the grain

  Familiarity information: LAID PAPER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAID PAPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Writing paper having a watermark of fine lines running across the grain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("laid paper" is a kind of...):

writing paper (paper material made into thin sheets that are sized to take ink; used for writing correspondence and manuscripts)

 Context examples 

The note is written upon ordinary cream-laid paper without watermark.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)