Meaning of Pasteboard | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Card stock.
   uncountable, usually
2. A widget allowing multiple users to paste and share text or other items.
   countable
3. A person's visiting card.
   countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks.”

“He handed Larry two slips of pasteboard, theater tickets, as was evident at first glance⟳.”

“To many, a railway ticket is but an uninteresting bit of pasteboard, which must be purchased before a journey is undertaken, and once obtained, may be stowed away in a convenient pocket and forgotten, until a watchful railway official requests its production.”

““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.”

“[…] he no sooner learnt that the British officer in command had sent in his pasteboard, than he instantly returned the visit⟳ […]”

“Peter called on the Pierces, only to find⟳ them out, and as no notice⟳ was taken of his pasteboard, he drew his own⟳ inference, and did not repeat⟳ the visit⟳.”

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