three-ply

• “Dozens of cards made of three-ply, and hand-printed and illustrated.”

  D is for Dogme « An A-Z of ELT

• “The dark, the glossy-wet, the formerly green banana leaf — three-ply — was open and inside the yellow mass: the dough, the yellow peas, the disintegrating carrot slices, the chicken with its skin, the hard boiled egg.”

  Un Tamal « Unknowing

• “If you routinely venture into terrain with sharp rocks or thorny vegetation that can pierce the sidewall (such damage is not repairable), consider tires with actual three-ply sidewall construction.”

  Get The Most Out Of A New Set of Truck Tires

• “Mr. Masson uses a 21¾-inch square, folded into three-ply, presented as square on the plate and then square when opened.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Great Shrink

• “The Atlanta-based company introduced its most premium toilet paper, a three-ply tissue called Quilted Northern Ultra Plush, in September 2008, just as the economy plummeted.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Expecting a Consumer Bounce, Georgia-Pacific Invests in Tissue

• “He stuffed a three-ply wedge of syrupy pancakes into his mouth.”

  Simon & Schuster: Tough Customer

• “THE CONDITION: Inflammation of the three-ply membrane around the brain and spinal cord called the meninges.”

  Simon & Schuster: You Raising Your Child

• “SEOUL - Kim Kyung-ji began sixth-period math class Wednesday afternoon by giving her middle school students three-ply, nonwoven face masks, to use during the simulated air strike by North Korea.”

  The Washington Post: South Korea practices for worst-case attack

• “The three-ply foil bag for the coffee segment is one example, said Angela Adams, Sonoco Flexible Packaging segment manger.”

  21 posts from April 2008

• “Par Co. jigsaws were hand-cut from three-ply Honduras mahogany, featuring cleverly personalized figural shapes — a rake, say, for a gardener or a wine bottle for an oenophile — cut in "trick" styles meant to challenge the puzzler.”

  Newsweek: Piecing It All Together

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