threadpaper
English
Noun
threadpaper (plural threadpapers)
- Alternative form of thread-paper
- 1842, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Lady Anne Granard, volume 3, pages 25-26:
- it is sufficient mortification to any woman to look as old as her mother, which you certainly did when we parted; and I greatly fear the sirocco winds and the blazing suns of Italy have made you resemble a parchment threadpaper at this time.