onionskin

NOUN
  1. a thin strong lightweight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies
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How To Use onionskin In A Sentence

  • Please note that Caferati only wants entries via email, so if your manuscript is written in copperplate across twenty-seven violet-scented onionskin pages, start typing.
  • Many decades later, his son, now president, would hold the yellowing case file in his hand, inspect its fading purple ink, its crumbling onionskin pages with their misspelled denunciations, and remember that spring night. The Return
  • Manual typewriters with onionskin carbon paper were the closest many of us got to automation.
  • But it would be hard to top his discovery, years ago, while inventorying a newly acquired collection of Joyce papers, of some onionskin leaves that Mr. Staley "realized were the famous lost link, the missing draft with Joyce's corrections in his own hand to the opening of 'Finnegans Wake' — an item more valuable than the price we had paid for the entire collection. A Magnum Opus for Ransom
  • Manual typewriters with onionskin carbon paper were the closest many of us got to automation.
  • ‘Buffy!’ she squealed, in an exuberant pleasure he knew to be genuine, if with no more depth than a sheet of onionskin.’
  • Please note that he only wants entries via email, so if your manuscript is written in copperplate across twenty-seven violet-scented onionskin pages, start typing.
  • It was one of the few that sold letter pads of onionskin paper, lightweight and therefore used primarily for airmail so one could save on postage.
  • Ephemera - postcards, letters on onionskin foolscap, newspaper clippings - are tucked into the pages and offer narrative clues. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is an assemblage of indefinite thickness made from planes superimposed one atop the other or from a network of cracks on thin layers of foggy glass that converge on a central point and run away again or from a collection of superimposed spiders' webs or from juxtaposed onionskin maps of the infrastructures of cities. A Story
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