pasteboard
English
Noun
pasteboard (countable and uncountable, plural pasteboards)
Translations
Adjective
pasteboard (not comparable)
- (figuratively) unsubstantial; flimsy
- 1955, The Junior Bookshelf (volume 19, page 241)
- A poor, pasteboard story. The conventional, unattractive heroine is recovering from an illness in Rome. She is discontented and sorry for herself because her planned career as a sports mistress has now to be abandoned.
- 1955, The Junior Bookshelf (volume 19, page 241)
References
- Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (1908).
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