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back
gray
(
plural
back grays
)
(
US
,
printing
,
textiles
,
historical
)
A piece of dark, heavy
cotton
cloth
that is run under another piece of cloth to be printed, serving to take up the color on the
roller
outside the width of the print cloth.
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