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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A duplicate, as of a letter, made by using carbon paper.
  2. n. A person or thing that closely resembles another.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A copy produced in an alternated stack of ordinary sheets of paper and carbon papers. The pression applied on the top sheet (by a pen or typewriter) causes every carbon paper to release its carbon cover, thus reproducing the writing on the subjacent layers of paper.
  2. n. Any duplicate.
  3. v. To create a carbon copy of.
  4. v. Internet make a copy for, send a duplicate to, cc

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. originally, a copy of a document made by use of a carbon paper, but now used generally to refer to any copy of a document made by a mechanical process, such as xerographic copying.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a copy made with carbon paper

Examples

  • “His dada carbon copy of Emmett, except tallergrinned and took one hand off the steering wheel to give the Vulcan salute as well.”

    Simon & Schuster: George’s Cosmic Treasure Hunt

  • “Inside lay the carbon copy of a letter, typed on an Underwood machine with a crooked lower-case "a": her father's type-writer; her father's words.”

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  • reesetee I don't miss this stuff at all, though. Always made one's fingers black (or blue). Aug 20, 2007

  • slumry Apparently you can still buy carbon paper; if I rummaged enough, I probably would find some at home. Aug 12, 2007

  • oroboros I'll bet you can't even buy 'em, or find 'em outside of a museum! Aug 12, 2007

  • slumry What? Never made a carbon copy? What? Aug 12, 2007

  • oroboros I'll bet you've never made one, Slumry! I have! :^D Aug 12, 2007

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