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India Paper

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A printing - paper made in China and Japan from vegetable fibre, and used for taking off the finest proofs of engraved plates. Pronounce Indiʹ paper.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Inchcape Rock
Incog.—i.e. Incognito (Italian)
Incorruptible (The)
Incubus
Indenture
Independence
Independence Day (July 4th)
Independents
Index (The)
India Ink or Chinese ink
India Paper
India Proof
Indian Arrowroot
Indian Drug (The)
Indian File (In)
Indian Red
Indian Summer (The)
Indians
Indiarubber
Individualists
Indoors