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ragbond

ragbond noun: heavyweight paper containing rag pulp, formerly used for government bonds.

Noun

ragbond (uncountable)

  1. heavyweight paper containing rag pulp, formerly used for government bonds
    • It was made of really expensive ragbond with an obvious watermark in the lower corner and sealed with old fashioned sealing wax.2014, Lisa Williamson, Guardians of the Gate City Collection, page 262
    • Plant specimens were mounted for permanent storage on sheets of ragbond paper along with their corresponding label.2015 August 11, Nemer E. Narchi et al., “An ethnomedicinal study of the Seri people; a group of hunter-gatherers and fishers native to the Sonoran Desert”, in Journal of Ethnobiology and...

Origin of ragbond

From rag + bond.

Questions about ragbond

What does ragbond mean?
Ragbond means heavyweight paper containing rag pulp, formerly used for government bonds.
What part of speech is ragbond?
Ragbond is a noun.

Words near ragbond in the dictionary

  1. ragazines
  2. ragbag
  3. ragbags
  4. ragbolt
  5. ragbolts
  6. ragbond
  7. Ragdale
  8. Ragdales
  9. ragdoll
  10. ragdoll physics
  11. ragdolled

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