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pasteboard
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noun
- a stiff board formed from layers of paper or pulp pasted together, esp as used in bookbinding
- ( as modifier )
a pasteboard book cover
- slang.a card or ticket
adjective
- flimsy; insubstantial
- sham; fake
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ±è²¹²õ³Ù±ðb´Ç²¹°ù»åy adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of pasteboard1
Example Sentences
Before that, he had given a Thanksgiving premiere of Krenek’s Symphony No. 4, a serial work with “about as much savor to it as a pasteboard turkey,†the critic Virgil Thomson quipped.
“We do not store or send the pasteboard contents. We removed this code and are releasing the fix on July 14th.â€
And finally his spirit of incompetence means that conservatives get far less out of his administration than they would from a genuine imperial president, a man of iron rather than of pasteboard.
While their white counterparts lived in brick barracks, the black Marines slept in pasteboard huts in a freshly torn pine tree forest, according to the book “African American Voices From Iwo Jima.â€
On a railroad siding off the main tracks, men in linty overalls were loading big pasteboard boxes full of cotton thread onto a freight car.
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