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ragbond en · NOUN

Etymology

From rag + bond.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) heavyweight paper containing rag pulp, formerly used for government bonds
    • 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 Ethnomedicine, volume 11, →DOI:
    • 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: