Crossword clues for onionskin
onionskin
The Collaborative International Dictionary
onionskin \on"ion*skin`\, n. [Onion + skin.] A kind of thin but strong translucent paper with a glossy finish.
Wiktionary
alt. A thin, strong, light, translucent paper; used especially for making carbon copies n. A thin, strong, light, translucent paper; used especially for making carbon copies
WordNet
n. a thin strong light-weight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies [syn: flimsy]
Wikipedia
Onionskin or onion skin is a thin, light-weight, strong, often translucent paper. Though not made from onions, it superficially resembles their thin, papery skins. It was usually used with carbon paper for typing duplicates in a typewriter, for permanent records where low bulk was important, or for airmail correspondence. It is typically 25–39 g/m² (9-pound basis weight in US units), and may be white or canary-colored.
In the typewriter era, onion skin often had a deeply textured cockle finish which allowed for easier erasure of typing mistakes, but other glazed and unglazed finishes were also available then and may be more common today.
Onionskin paper is relatively durable and lightweight due to its high content of cotton fibers. Because of these attributes and its crispness when folding, onionskin paper is one of the best papers to use for toy kites and advanced paper airplanes. Paper airplanes made from onionskin paper tend to fly very well due to their low weight and high integrity once folded.
Onionskin paper has also been regularly used in traditional cel animation. Due to its translucency, it is used as a guide in drawing the frames between key-frames. This is a process that animators refer to as "in-betweening". The process of "onionskinning" is also used in digital animation where frames are represented by digital layers in a production.
Usage examples of "onionskin".
Graham still sitting in front of his typewriter, not writing now, but reading through a pile of onionskin pages.
He slapped the onionskin onto the table, and threw down on top of it two sheets of closely written radio log paper.
Their kid leather clutch bags stuffed with crumpled 1955 newsprint, and their morocco-leather-covered diaries with gold-leafed, onionskin pages, remained unopened, un confided in-well, they had had nothing to confide, for their emotional lives had been as stinted of the luxuries of passion and personal dramas as their cool and shallow bathwater had been bereft of emollients and scents.
Inside a small compahaent was a folded, yellow piece of onionskin paper.
Lorca he was familiar with, printed on onionskin and bound in leather in Barcelona.
She found a fountain pen and a small pad of onionskin paper among the batteries.
When painting proved too difficult, I turned to tracing comic-book characters onto onionskin typing paper, telling myself that I would have come up with Mr.
Handwritten in blue ball-point on onionskin sheets, the en264 closed letter could have been a first draft, or it might have been written in a hurry.
The flash paper is thin stuff, like onionskin, and the reason we use it is that in case of a raid you just touch a match to it and the whole roll goes up in nothing flat.
I walked in and found a bored-looking young man with too much hair and not enough complexion chewing gum and thumbing through a stack of onionskin paper.
I failed to add that the two onionskin lists were in my pocket, one with his name in pencil at the top.
They were onionskin carbons of his lengthy Letter of Agreement signed in Belgravia Square over a week ago.
I gave my attention to the onionskin reports which were sent over from headquarters each day, while Battersly sighed with pleasure and scanned the adventures of Dick Tracy, a vice I could never understand in a professional copper.
Her foster father owned onionskin scrolls that mapped thembeautifully worked illustrations, keyed in High Hand and gilded like prayer books.
Their decks were onionskins around a central core instead of perpendicular to the main thrust axis like those of spherical-plan long-voyage vessels.