deckle

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  1. noun A frame used in making paper by hand to form paper pulp into sheets of a desired size.
  2. noun A deckle edge.

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  • It turned out to be a book of family souvenirs: children's report cards, a baby's hair ribbons, postcards from the summer camp two little boys had attended, with here and there a few old deckle-edged snapshots: blurry-faced people in black and white, standing in front of the house or blowing out birthday candles. —  F ;SF; - vol 093 issue 01 - July 1997
  • But anything written on deckle-edged pink paper with violet ink had nothing sacrosanct about it. —  June, 1943
  • There was one letter in the “Bredon” box—the kind that novelists used to call a “dainty missive”; that is to say, the envelope was tinted mauve, had a gilt deckle-edge and was addressed in a flourishing feminine handwriting. —  Murder Must Advertise
  • A sheet of thick, deckle-edged notepaper scrawled with spidery writing in pale green ink. —  R. D. Wingfield - Frost at Christmas
  • On top of the pile was a deckle-edged sheet of notepaper scrawled with green ink. —  R. D. Wingfield - Frost at Christmas
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. German Deckel, from Decke, cover, from decken, to cover, from Middle High German, from Old High German decchen; see (s)teg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also written dekle, deckel; = Swedish deckel = Russian dekele, from Low German dekkel = German deckel (cf. Dutch deksel = Danish dæksel), a cover, lid, tympan, diminutive of decke, cover, covering, deck, deck: see deck.
 

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