blotting-papern.
A bibulous paper made without size, used to absorb superfluous ink. Also attributive.
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1519 W. Horman Vulgaria viii. f. 80v Blottynge papyr serueth to drye weete wryttynge lest there be made blottis or blurris.
1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. iv. 29 Each to haue a blotting paper to keep their books from soyling, or marring vnder their hands.
1756 I. Mauduit in Philos. Trans. 1755 (Royal Soc.) 49 207 It is less bibulous than the common blotting paper.
1853 E. C. Gaskell Cranford ix. 163 The same confused sort of way in which written words run together on blotting-paper.
1894 H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Romance vii. 68 Acid with the soup, salt and warmth with the fish to intensify its brain-feeding and blotting-paper qualities.
1904 Daily Chron. 6 Feb. 9/1 Blotting-paper pink and turtle-dove drab.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 23 Apr. 4/2 A quaint touch of pale blotting-paper pink worsted embroidery upon stone-coloured muslin.
1937 E. J. Labarre Dict. Paper 26/1 Blotting paper..is, peculiarly enough, produced from the same materials as the most expensive papers, viz: rags... It is now also largely made from chemical wood pulp, esparto, etc.
1967 E. Short Embroidery & Fabric Collage iv. 108 Once the work is complete it should be stretched face upwards over damp blotting paper.
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