artpaper

English

Etymology

art + paper

Noun

artpaper (uncountable)

  1. Heavy-stock paper that is commonly used in books that show reproductions of artwork.
    • 1930, WN Sherwood, Paper-pulp beater (US Patent 1,780,845):
      Further, in the prior artpaper pulp heaters, the circulation or travel of the pulp through the vat or tub not entirely satisfactory.
    • 1984, Yozo Ohba, Takashi Toyoda, Masaaki Yamanaka, Fukashi Hashimoto, Tetsuji Kakizaki, Stretched film (U.S. Patent US4483965A):
      Of the stretched films according to this invention, the transparent stretched film is useful as a wrapping film; The translucent stretched film is useful, as tracing paper, a poster for an electric sign, a wrapping film, a film for print lamination, or the like; and the opaque stretched film is useful, as artpaper, photographic paper, wrapping paper, paper for an envelope, makeup paper, paper for a note, paper for a map, and so forth.
    • 1984, GHW Kenney, Price ticket and like displays (US Patent 4,446,640):
      (1) large sheets of the selected plastics are mounted on to suitable artboard or substantial artpaper, the top or receiving surface of the latter being glazed and the reverse surface matt.
    • 2009, Joash Moo, Frank Lee, Art in Life Lower Secondary, →ISBN, page 45:
      Place the cardboard shape created on a piece of artpaper and trace its outline with a pencil.
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