laminex
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Proprietary name.
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laminex (uncountable)
- (Australia) A hard plastic laminate, used especially as a surfacing material. [from 20th c.]
- 1979, Thea Astley, Hunting the Wild Pineapple, Nelson, page 7:
- It was furnished in early Laminex and the hideous conflict between the polystyrene beams with their regular moulded knot-holes and the wipe-down sterility of puke surfaces made for emotional astigmatism.
- 2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 15:
- I laid the book on a laminex table that sat next to the meat safe […] and turned the cover.