Crossword clues for glassine
Wiktionary
n. 1 a light paper used as interleaving between artworks or stamp album pages. 2 smooth, non-absorbing, grease- and moisture-resistant, super-calendered paper 3 (context philately usually used as a plural English) A small stamp packet made from glassine paper.
Wikipedia
Glassine is a smooth and glossy paper that is air, water and grease resistant. It is usually available in thickness between 50-90 GSM. It is translucent unless dyes are added to color it or make it opaque. It is manufactured by supercalendering: after pressing and drying, the paper web is passed through a stack of alternating steel and fiber-covered rolls called a supercalender at the end of the paper machine such that the paper fibres flatten facing in the same direction.
Usage examples of "glassine".
I imitated a browser, leafing through big glassine pages on a countertop easel, looking at incredibly florid stamps from improbable countries, like Ajman, Zambia, and Bangladesh.
They were indisputable crystalline formations, not biological pseudomorphs like glassine hairs.
He'd given the addict some, but promised him more, of a glassine bag of heroin that Drew had spent part of the afternoon relieving from a second-rate pusher.
The courier would lead them all right - to a cul-de-sac alley three blocks away where Drew had promised to pay the junky the rest of the heroin in the glassine bag.
Here’s a stock book—Austria—and here’s a box of glassines, also Austria.
One small envelope with a stiffener to prevent bending, with glassine interleafs for the mint copies, you can walk around with a half million dollars.
But instead she'd placed him in the vacuum forest of glassine trees that grew on the outer walls of Summer House, displaying him with the respiratory organ in active position, its supple gray tissue raised over his mouth and nose and ears like a veil.
As an adult, she traveled around with her own teas, her own salad dressings, her own vitamins neatly arranged in little glassine packs.
A pair of uniformed patrolmen came in, asked their questions, put the black silk glove and bloody sleeve in a glassine bag for evidence, dusted unsuccessfully for fingerprints, and left just as the Westminster chimes on the News-Star tower downtown marked 4AM.