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laminex

laminex noun: a hard plastic laminate, used especially as a surfacing material.

Noun

laminex (uncountable)

  1. (Australia) A hard plastic laminate, used especially as a surfacing material.
    • It was furnished in early Laminex and the hideous conflict between the polystyrene beams with their regular moulded knot-holes and the wipe-down sterility of puke surfaces made for emotional astigmatism.1979, Thea Astley, Hunting the Wild Pineapple, Nelson, page 7
    • I laid the book on a laminex table that sat next to the meat safe […] and turned the cover.2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 15

Forms of laminex

alternative formLaminex

Origin of laminex

Proprietary name.

Questions about laminex

What does laminex mean?
Laminex means a hard plastic laminate, used especially as a surfacing material.
What part of speech is laminex?
Laminex is a noun.

Words near laminex in the dictionary

  1. laminectomies
  2. laminectomised
  3. laminectomized
  4. laminectomy
  5. Lamines
  6. laminex
  7. laming
  8. lamings
  9. lamington
  10. lamington drive
  11. lamington drives

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