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pasteboards

pasteboards is the plural of pasteboard.

Meaning of pasteboard

Noun

pasteboard (countable and uncountable, plural pasteboards)

  1. (uncountable, usually) Card stock.
    • All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks.1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick
  2. (countable) A widget allowing multiple users to paste and share text or other items.
  3. (obsolete, slang) 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.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 37, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...

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Questions about pasteboards

What is pasteboards the plural of?
Pasteboards is the plural of pasteboard.

Words near pasteboards in the dictionary

  1. paste-wash
  2. pasteable
  3. pastebin
  4. pastebins
  5. pasteboard
  6. pasteboards
  7. pasteboardy
  8. pasted
  9. pasted up
  10. pastedown
  11. pastedowns

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