pasteboard

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Sakai told the crowd that "cartoon" came from the Italian word "cartone" - pasteboard, a sketch of a planned drawing or painting done on heavy paper.

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  1. noun A thin firm board made of sheets of paper pasted together or pressed paper pulp.
  2. noun A card, especially:
  3. noun A ticket.

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  • Sakai told the crowd that "cartoon" came from the Italian word "cartone" - pasteboard, a sketch of a planned drawing or painting done on heavy paper. —  Comic Book Resources
  • Parked items are put on the pasteboard, and can be moved around freely from there - any movement while they are parked is ignored and forgotten the instant you unpark them. —  VersionTracker: Mac OS X
  • A few minutes after the Princess Elizabeth had read the words on the pasteboard, a new guard arrived, in a passion of fear and anger. —  The Peasant and the Prince
  • Surrounded both by plain women of flesh and blood and by beauteous women on pasteboard, the undergraduate is the easiest victim of living loveliness--is as a fire ever well and truly laid, amenable to a spark. —  Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story
  • Even Jerry found she could do amazing wonders with crępe paper ribbon and pasteboard, once she had "got the hang of the thing The hardest problem which confronted the givers was how to hang their offerings and slip away before the recipient opened her door and nabbed the stealthy donor. —  Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore
 

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/ˈpeɪstboʊrd/
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