deckle edge

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   rough edge left by a deckle on handmade paper or produced artificially on machine-made paper

   Synonymsdeckle

   Broaderedge

Questions about deckle edge

What does deckle edge mean?

deckle edge means "rough edge left by a deckle on handmade paper or produced artificially on machine-made paper".

What is another word for deckle edge?

Close synonyms include deckle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is deckle edge a common word?

deckle edge is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.