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pasteboardn.adj. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: paste n., board n. Etymology: < paste n. + board n. Compare also paste v. With sense A. 1 compare earlier pastry board n. at pastry n. Compounds 2. A. n. I. A board for paste or pasting. the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > baker's equipment > bread or pastry board 1452 in J. Raine (1865) III. 136 (MED) j pasteburde, viij d. 1725 M. Davys 275 Upon her Tea-Table, instead of a set of China, stood a Pasteboard, with a piece of fat Bacon upon it. 1781 in P. C. Moore (1960) 82 Bake House—A Paste board & an old ½ Bushel. 1828 E. Leslie 65 Throw some flour on your paste-board. 1853 E. C. Gaskell in 17 Dec. 364/2 A paste-board, made after the French pattern, which would not slip about on a dresser, as he had observed her English paste-board to do. 1894 A. Robertson 51 She dropped the rolling-pin on the paste-board. society > occupation and work > equipment > decorating equipment > [noun] > paper-hanger's board 1901 J. Black 41 The lengths of paper should be laid..on the pasteboard supported by the trestles. 1986 F. Underwood & G. Warr in A. Limon et al. (ed. 2) ii. i. 140 Many varieties of hinges are now available, including speciality hinges for step ladders and decorator's pasteboards. 1999 (Nexis) 28 Feb. (Sport) 66 My dad's a painter and decorator—and he's had the pasteboard and brushes out giving me a hand. II. An object or material made from paste or by pasting things together. society > communication > book > parts of book > [noun] > cover > boards society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > materials made from paper or pulp > [noun] > pasteboard > piece of 1511 R. Gibson (P.R.O. e36.217/21–28) Item bowght by me rechard gybson of past bordes ix per peece. 1552 (STC 16282.3) (facing colophon) Bounde in leather, in paste boordes or claspes. 1665 Inventory Pictures in (Edinb. Reg. House) 3 The picture of 2 religious old men, done on a paisseboard in blak and whyt. 1686 in H. Paton (1932) 3rd Ser. XIII. 58 [A] bill for prohibiting the importing of course paper and paisboords. 1726 J. Swift I. ii. vii. 132 It was as thick and stiff as a Past-board. 1796 W. Withering (ed. 3) I. 32 Put it upon a dry fresh pasteboard, and, covering it with fresh blossom paper, let it remain in the press. 1818 H. Parry 15 Put the paste-boards on each side of the book..and mark on them, with a bodkin, the places where the bands are to be drawn or laced in. 1918 W. Cather i. xi. 92 She cut squares of cotton cloth and we sewed them together into a book. We bound it between pasteboards. 1956 H. M. Nixon 193/1 Material: Red straight-grained morocco, over pasteboards. 4. society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > materials made from paper or pulp > [noun] > pasteboard 1562 in (1847) 59 Item iiij. greate schoocheons wrowght with metall on payste boorde. 1606 H. Peacham (1612) 94 Take of the fairest and smoothest pastboord you can get. a1684 J. Evelyn anno 1645 (1955) II. 417 Statues in Plaster & Pastboard which so resemble Coper, that..they cannot be distinguishd. 1737 12 Feb. 3/1 A box made of Past board with Caps and handkerchiefs for women. 1793 T. Beddoes 21 A model of each triangle cut out in pasteboard. 1858 D. Lardner (new ed.) 196 A conical reflecting shade, the best material for which is paper or paste-board. 1875 J. Miller 225 Two sun-bonnets, made of paste-board and calico. 1948 ‘J. Tey’ xxii. 243 Robert sat turning over and over in his pocket the little oblong of pasteboard that Christina had pressed into his hand. 1989 R. L. O'Connell vi. 101 The halberd, a combination pike and battle-ax which..could cleave a helmet or a shield like pasteboard. the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > [noun] > something false or forged 1648 C. Walker ii. 108 Sir Hardres Waller (that one-eyed Polyphemus of pasteboard) lately sent forth Commissions in the County of Devon. a1706 J. Evelyn (2001) ii. iii. 99 Our Cockney Plantations, that looke like Gardens of Pastboard & March-pane & which smell more of Paint then of flowers. 1829 T. Carlyle German Playwrights in Jan. 96 Doings in the world of pasteboard. 1838 R. W. Emerson 30 All attempts to contrive a system, are as cold as the new worship introduced by the French to the goddess of Reason,—to-day, pasteboard and fillagree, and ending to-morrow in madness and murder. 1994 11 May 37/2 The Russian Princess and the Count who killed her fiancé..remain pure pasteboard. 5. colloquial and slang. society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > [noun] > visiting card 1837 T. Hook I. i. 9 They lodge their pasteboard and away they go. 1850 W. M. Thackeray I. xxxvii. 365 ‘We shall only have to leave our pasteboards, Arthur.’ He used the word ‘pasteboards’, having heard it from some of the ingenuous youth of the nobility about town. 1889 ‘J. S. Winter’ (1891) 70 The unutterable fag of paying calls and leaving pasteboards. 1903 H. James i. i. 10 She left him after he had taken from her the small pasteboard she had extracted from her pocket-book. society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] 1840 8 Feb. Mr. T. T. Hazard said this was licensed gambling—we might as well license those gentlemen who use the pasteboards. a1854 R. M. Bird (1933) i. i. 5 It is only necessary for you to dress well, to drink deeply, to be knowing with the ball and pasteboard, and to swear abominably. 1859 W. M. Thackeray xv Three honours in their hand, and some good court cards,..hour after hour..delightfully..spent over the pasteboard. 1915 R. W. Lardner 13 A couple o' the girls is monkeyin' with the pasteboards and tellin' their fortunes. 1985 R. Davies (1986) iv. 214 I came out exactly seven shillings to the good, which was part luck and part my fourth-generation skill with the pasteboards. society > travel > rail travel > [noun] > train ticket 1856 ‘K. R. Ockside’ & ‘Q. K. P. Doesticks’ 29 Putting his physiognomy before the seven by nine aperture through which the money goes in and the pasteboard comes out. 1873 J. H. Beadle xxxvi. 771 The call of ‘Tickets, gents’, showed one man without the pasteboard. 1901 11 Nov. 5/2 Season ticket holders may not travel indefinitely without producing their ‘pasteboards’. 1981 (Nexis) 9 Feb. 33 The Baltimore Colts organization tried to buck this system by nastily specifying that pasteboards earmarked for its own players could be picked up only by the gladiators themselves. 2002 (Nexis) 6 Dec. 47 Drifting back to the guy selling tickets on the 50... ‘These pasteboards, they're 300 bucks per.’ B. adj. ( attributive). society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > materials made from paper or pulp > [adjective] > made of pasteboard 1601 B. Jonson i. v. sig. D As if we practiz'd in a Past-boord case. View more context for this quotation 1641 J. Milton 54 To blow them down like a past-bord House built of Court-Cards. 1668 A. Wood (1892) II. 131 Bound with a past-board cover and vellum over it. 1707 J. Mortimer 221 Put into a Paste-board Box. 1748 271 Paper or pastboard puppets, contriv'd to move in all postures. 1812 E. Weeton Let. 25 May in (1969) II. 17 We have pasteboard money here, instead of silver. 1885 J. K. Jerome xii. 105 The pantomime was still running, and Mat played a demon with a pasteboard head. 1940 E. Hemingway ii. 20 They were long narrow cigarettes with pasteboard cylinders for mouth pieces. 1981 (Nexis) 10 May e1 The bookcovers are made on a pasteboard core, covered with leather. the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > [adjective] 1659 G. Torriano Signóre Cartóne, a pastboard Lord, a Lord of Clouts. 1764 O. Goldsmith 8 The paste-board triumph and the cavalcade. 1816 J. Gilchrist 197 Such paste-board, gingerbread fortifications of the Monkish Theory. 1898 G. Wyndham p. lxx The alarums and excursions of these paste-board hostilities. 1934 18 Apr. 426/2 The film is still full of real characters, not the pasteboard subsidiaries we meet so often. 1989 Feb. 78/2 Paste-board castellated folies de grandeur. Compounds C1. a. 1852 20 Nov. 76/1 Pasteboard cutter. a1877 E. H. Knight II. 1636/1 Pasteboard-cutter,..for grooving and cutting pasteboard strips employed for making boxes. a1697 J. Aubrey (1898) I. 153 His wife..sold this incomparable collection..to the past-board makers for wast paper. 1824 194 Pasteboard makrs. 2002 (Nexis) 76 They included..a tailor, a pen-cutter, a pasteboard maker, [etc.]. b. 1846 Aug. 185/1 The foreground is cut up by the sharp lines of flat, pasteboard-looking legs. 1999 8 Feb. (Film reviews) His gravely monumental face peaking in a prominent, pasteboard-looking nose surmounted by Harold Lloyd-like glasses. C2. the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > the wasps > miscellaneous types 1864–5 J. G. Wood (1868) xiv. 259 The nest..of the Pasteboard Wasp (Chartergus nidulans). 1872 J. G. Wood 372 The surface [of the nest] is therefore as smooth as that of the various pasteboard wasps which build in the forests of tropical America. Derivatives 1662 B. Gerbier 18 Nor are the wooden Shutters such Pastboard-like things, as are..put on the..London..Houses. 1823 J. C. Beltrami Let. 24 Oct. in (1962) xxi. 474 Our little pasteboard-like flotilla. 1987 (Nexis) 17 Apr. (Preview section) p38 The uncannily still, mirrorlike surface of a canal dominated by the rather unconvincing, pasteboardlike image of a castle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). <  n.adj.1452 |
