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Manila paper

noun

  1. strong, light-brown or buff paper, originally made from Manila hemp but now also from wood pulp substitutes and various other fibers.
  2. any paper resembling Manila paper.


Manila paper

noun

  1. a strong usually brown paper made from Manila hemp or similar fibres
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of Manila paper1

First recorded in 1870–75
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But perhaps the most important and reliable visual record of June 25, 1876, comes from someone who was there: Red Horse, a Lakota Sioux chief who, drawing from memory five years after the fighting, used colored pencils and manila paper to create a suite of 42 unsparing images chronicling the horrific battle in which he’d fought.

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I flipped through her part of the manila paper file.

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I got a piece of manila paper.

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Over the canton flannel, but not extending over to the sides, there should be pasted a good quality of linen, rope or manila paper of sufficient thickness to make the book firm.

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One of these should be a 60-pound and the other an 80-pound manila paper, both guarded entirely around the fold with jaconet.

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