laid paper

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   writing paper having a watermark of fine lines running across the grain

   Broaderwriting paper

Questions about laid paper

What does laid paper mean?

laid paper means "writing paper having a watermark of fine lines running across the grain".

Is laid paper a common word?

laid paper 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.