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millboard

NOUN
  1. stout pasteboard used to bind books

How To Use millboard In A Sentence

  • The wet mixtures for millboard, paper, and asbestos-cement products are prepared in a beater, as used in paper mills.
  • In the early 16th century, they started to make cover cores with millboards, which were produced by gluing together sheets of paper.
  • It is best to keep two ploughs in use, one for the millboard cutting, and one for the edges of the books.
  • The more important lightweight sketching supports in the 19th century were academy boards and millboards.
  • After and during forming, the millboard sheet is compressed to give it uniform thickness and to consolidate it.
  • Those were the days when the craft of bookbinding involved working with linen thread, webbing, animal glues, vellum, leather, millboards and handmade papers.
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