pasteboard
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pasteboard
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From paste + board.
noun pasteboards
- Card stock. All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks.
- A widget allowing multiple users to paste and share text or other items.
- A person's visiting card. “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, and as a modern phrase suited to Pen’s tender years.
adjective
- unsubstantial; flimsy A poor, pasteboard story. The conventional, unattractive heroine is recovering from an illness in Rome. She is discontented and sorry for herself because her planned career as a sports mistress has now to be abandoned.
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noun card stock
| Deutsch | Pappkarton, Karton |
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Talk about this word "pasteboard." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/pasteboard. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. pasteboard. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/pasteboard "pasteboard." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/pasteboard.
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@misc{pasteboard_2026,
title = {pasteboard},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pasteboard},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
