copying paper

English

Noun

copying paper (plural copying papers)

1. (historical) a machine for taking by pressure, an exact copy of letters, etc., written in copying ink.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Edward A. Dawe, Paper and Its Uses, Chapter 10:

     The leaf of the copying book is damped, the excess of moisture removed by an absorbent sheet, the document inserted, the book closed, and pressed in the copying press. By this means copies of correspondence are preserved for reference. Copying paper is also made up in rolls for copying machines which carry out the damping and copying automatically.

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “copying paper”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)