cardboard
English
Usage notes
Despite widespread general use in English, the term cardboard is deprecated in commerce and industry as not adequately defining a specific product.[1]
Derived terms
- cardboard box
- cardboard city
- cardboard cut-out, cardboard cutout
Translations
material resembling heavy paper
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See also
References
- Walter Soroka, Illustrated Glossary of Packaging Terminology, p. 154
Adjective
cardboard
- Made of or resembling cardboard; (figuratively) flat or flavorless.
- 1868, Arthur William A'Beckett, "Painted Ships and Painted Oceans", The Tomahawk, page 114:
- The worst of the thing, however, is that the enormity, such as it is, happens to be of a very cardboard and tinsel character.
- 1973, Journal of Black Poetry, Issue 17, page 27:
- The thing really looked quite cardboard.
- Twentieth-Century Scottish Drama, page 501:
- MUMMER 3 pulls out an inflated cushion with a very cardboard crown on it.
- 1868, Arthur William A'Beckett, "Painted Ships and Painted Oceans", The Tomahawk, page 114:
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