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tarboards

tarboards is the plural of tarboard.

Meaning of tarboard

Noun

tarboard (countable and uncountable, plural tarboards)

  1. (historical) A kind of tough millboard containing tar, used in making springbacks for books.
    • Best Quality Tarboards1889, The Inland Printer, volume 6, page 210

Questions about tarboards

What is tarboards the plural of?
Tarboards is the plural of tarboard.

Words near tarboards in the dictionary

  1. Tarbert
  2. Tarbes
  3. Tarbet
  4. Tarbets
  5. tarboard
  6. tarboards
  7. Tarbock
  8. tarbogan
  9. tarbogans
  10. tarboggin
  11. tarboggined

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tarboards (page history and authors); tarboard (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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