Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
deckle .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Paper Making) Same as
deckle .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
deckle . (instrument in paper-making)
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Examples
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This year, he had them all scanned and digitally printed on deckel-edged paper, several copies of each drawing.
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Given a choice between a plain trade paperback like this version of On the Road and a fancier one with a cover that imitates that of a hardcover and deckel-edged pages, people almost invariably choose the fancy one, even if it costs $3 more.
One thing I don't have to worry about. bradamant 2002
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The most alluring aspects of the books are details: to start with, they have lovely deckel-edge pages and hardcover bindings.
Children's lit, part I bradamant 2002
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Here we have a somewhat cruder type, printed on hand-laid, deckel-edged paper, with excessive margins and uncut leaves, with bindings of a painstaking crudeness and elaborate ineptitude.
The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions 1899
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Here we have a somewhat cruder type, printed on hand-laid, deckel-edged paper, with excessive margins and uncut leaves, with bindings of a painstaking crudeness and elaborate ineptitude.
Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen 1893
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Beautifully printed in two colors on deckel edge paper, with decorative borders, fourteen half-tone illustrations by Gilbert James, and a portrait of Fitzgerald.
The Wide, Wide World Susan Warner 1852
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"A thick book," he said, "with deckel edges and pictures by Christy.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) Various 1887
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