Definitions

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  • noun A strong, lightweight material consisting of an inner layer of polystyrene clad with outer facing of either white claycoated paper or brown kraft paper.

Etymologies

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foam +‎ board

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Examples

  • Wal-Mart enlists local politicians whenever they have a foamboard check and a press conference.

    Al Norman: Summertime and the Givin' Is Sleazy Al Norman 2011

  • In December, as she was slicing foamboard for an architectural model, she dropped her X-acto knife, and cut a large gash in her thigh.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • Created for the 2008 San Diego Comic Con International, the costume is made out of “foamboard, hobby foam, vinyl signage applique, and is held together with tons of hot glue and some duct tape here and there.”

    Cool Stuff: Fan Made Bumblebee Costume | /Film 2008

  • In December, as she was slicing foamboard for an architectural model, she dropped her X-acto knife, and cut a large gash in her thigh.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • In December, as she was slicing foamboard for an architectural model, she dropped her X-acto knife, and cut a large gash in her thigh.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • Her friends were all on their knees on the floor, with jars of paint and big markers, creating on posterboard and foamboard.

    GINNY BATES: BACK TO HOW IT ALL BEGAN Maggie Jochild 2007

  • Winston was carrying a poster for The Most Dangerous Man in America mounted on foamboard.

    Jonathan Kim: ReThink Interview with Daniel Ellsberg: The Most Dangerous Man in America Speaks (Part One) 2009

  • The construction is "UltraCal (construction plaster) + foamboard," and comprises some 50 buildings.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • Theprintspace also offer an in-house mounting service, to exhibition standard on a choice of foamboard, MDF, Dibond, aluminium or even the current fine-art ‘vogue’ method: perspex reverse mounting.

    theprintspace takes its innovative professional photographic print process to the web! Thatsnews 2008

  • Theprintspace also offer an in-house mounting service, to exhibition standard on a choice of foamboard, MDF, Dibond, aluminium or even the current fine-art ‘vogue’ method: perspex reverse mounting.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Thatsnews 2008

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