writing-paper

See also: writing paper

English

Noun

writing-paper (countable and uncountable, plural writing-papers)

1. Dated form of writing paper.
   • 1861, Edward William Cox, Reports of Cases in Criminal Law:

     The evidence disclosed that the three prisoners were in a public-house together with the prosecutor, Abraham Rhodes, and that in concert with the other two prisoners, the prisoner John Dewhirst placed a pencase on the table in the room where they were assembled, and left the room to get writing-paper.

   • 1985, Angelica Garnett, Deceived with Kindness: A Bloomsbury Childhood, San Diego, Calif.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, →ISBN, page 59:

     In the library a lamp stood on a tripod of hooves, once those of a deer, and on the writing-table, furnished with the thickest of inlaid writing-papers, was an ink-well made from another, larger hoof, perhaps that of the moose in the hall, king of all these relics.

   • 2011 May 13, John Walsh, “Beware letters from fictional civil servants”, in Viewspaper (The Independent), page 5:

     But isn’t a letter on Downing Street-headed writing-paper a serious official document?

   • 2012, Orlando Figes, Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag, London: Allen Lane, →ISBN, page 69:

     She wrote in small, barely legible handwriting on blank sheets or on the most narrowly ruled writing-paper she could find, cramming as much as possible on to the page.