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paper-thick en · ADJ
Meanings
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(dated, figuratively, uncommon) Paper-thin.
To make a key of a chamber-door, which to your sight hath its wards and rose-pipe but paper-thick, and yet at pleasure, in a minute of an hour, shall become a perfect pistol, capable to shoot through a breast-plate commonly of carbine-proof, with prime, powder, and firelock, undiscoverable to a stranger's hand.
1813, Edward Somerset Marquis of Worcester, The Marquis of Worcester's Century of Inventions, page 20:Another woman was selling very sharp knives. Using one hand she sliced through a bit of tomato that already seemed paper-thick.
1998, Eliza Hussman Gaines (publisher), Chattanooga Times:
Deriveds
paper-thickness