What is "pasteboard"

Usage examples of "pasteboard".

In the hallway I pulled off the pasteboard mask, moistened a piece of cotton in the benzine and scrubbed off the bits of adhesive which had stuck to my face and forehead.

From a pocket in her dress, Meriel withdrew a small velum envelope folded over a square of stiff pasteboard.

Colorful pasteboard cards spilled on the carpet, some large as book covers, some small and square, a few round as big coins.

He described to her the London fashions: how gowns were pinned rather closer than before, hoops as flat as though made of pasteboard and as stiff, the shape sloping from the hips and spreading at the bottom, enormous but not so ugly as the square hoops.

Well right now Slothrop feels himself sliding onto the anti-paranoid part of his cycle, feels the whole city around him going back roofless, vulnerable, uncentered as he is, and only pasteboard images now of the Listening Enemy left between him and the wet sky.

But when Bates searched a wallet that X had left beside the G-man, he discovered a slip of pasteboard on which Jackson had recorded the tip.

The hillsmen clove the besiegers through like a piece of pasteboard, and turning, rode back again through the broken ranks, their battle-call ringing high above the clash of steel.

Seated on the doorstep, celluloid collar shining, the brown pasteboard suitcase at his feet, was Tufik.

There were paper plates strewing the floor, cellophane wrappers and white pasteboard backings from old cupcakes, chicken bones in red-striped tubs streaked with cold grease.

La Mancha as the knight's country and scene of his chivalries is of a piece with the pasteboard helmet, the farm-labourer on ass-back for a squire, knighthood conferred by a rascally ventero, convicts taken for victims of oppression, and the rest of the incongruities between Don Quixote's world and the world he lived in, between things as he saw them and things as they were.

Though faster and more maneuverable, the Series 95 possessed scarcely a tenth of a battler's mass, and the fusion bolt seared through armor and internal circuitries like a high-velocity bullet through a structure made of pasteboard cards.

The watercolor of a schooner that he took down from above the breakfast bar was just blank pasteboard on the reverse side.

Azarin bit down on the end of the papyros, and the hollow filter tube of giltwrapped pasteboard crumpled.

That let him turn on the electric lights after supper, and let Skorzeny win more funny money from him with those possibly trained pasteboards.

The Card was simple embossed pasteboard, a rich cream in colour, bearing the name of the bar in dark Gothic script, and beneath that the words YOU ARE HERE, in bloodred lettering.