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Cardboard

A stiff compact pasteboard of various qualities, for making cards, etc., often having a polished surface.

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Artificial 84% connected

Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, mineral…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Artificial 84% connected

Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, mineral…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Unreal 84% connected

Not real; unsubstantial; fanciful; ideal.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Unreal 84% connected

Not real; unsubstantial; fanciful; ideal.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Narrower term 3

Card 76% connected

A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game play…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Pasteboard 76% connected

A stiff thick kind of paper board, formed of several single sheets pasted one upon another, or of paper macerated and pressed into molds, etc.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Strawboard 76% connected

Pasteboard made of pulp of straw.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Broader term 3

Packing 76% connected

of Pack

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Paper 76% connected

A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be used in wrapping. It is made of rags, straw, bark, wo…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Wadding 76% connected

of Wad

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