The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pressboard \Press"board`\, n. A kind of highly sized rag paper or board, sometimes containing a small admixture of wood pulp; -- so called because used originally, as now, in presses for pressing and finishing knit underwear.
Wiktionary
n. A kind of highly sized rag paper or board, sometimes containing a small admixture of wood pulp.
Wikipedia
Pressboard is a class of cellulose-based material constructed of several layers (plies) of paper which, when compressed using a combination of heat and pressure, form a stiff, dense material in a range of weights. Pressboard has been widely used in traditional school and office products such as spiral-bound notebooks and three-ring binders, but its unique physical characteristics lend itself readily to a variety of end-uses, including (but not limited to) document storage, filing supplies (classification and file folders), report covers, folding cartons, tags, labels, and industrial applications. It is commonly used to make the back panels of radios and some televisions. Pressboard may be converted using a number of different techniques (scoring, folding, die-cutting), and accepts a range of value-add decorating techniques (coating, foil-stamping, screen-printing, and embossing). Pressboard may contain recycled fiber content (including post-consumer waste), and is typically itself recyclable and biodegradable, making it an environmentally-sound choice for those seeking an alternative to petroleum-derived substrates.
Usage examples of "pressboard".
Except for the two changes of clothes in the pressboard drawers beneath the mattress, all my things were in storage.
Papers, empty food tins, and ground-out cigarettes littered the crude pressboard floor.
From the case he removed a bulging pressboard wallet tied with tape, and passed it over.
Without speaking, Miguel opened the pressboard wallet Jos6 Antonio Salaverry had given him and began counting hundred-dollar bills.
Three ancient varnished-oak folding chairs had been set up, apparently in preparation for their visit, in front of a pressboard computer desk with a gleaming-white IBM PC sitting incongruously atop it.
There were four stalwarts on duty in the little pressboard guard shack.
There were self-framed pictures of people on the walls and arranged on the pressboard entertainment shelves.
Rat laughed, and seeing no other option, Ivy dragged the folder to her, tucked it under her arm, and headed for the door with Rat, leaving her old office and its comforting walls behind for an open office with pressboard walls and bad coffee.
Beside it a pressboard nightstand painted brown in imitation of wood grain.
Colorful posters thumbtacked to the pressboard walls expressed such sentiments as Have You Hugged A Seal Today?
Behind him, a ragged American flag had been slung across the water-damaged pressboard wall.
With a deep, primordial scream that resounded off the pressboard office walls, Judith hurled the chair through the air.
Pressboard was a retired person who believed, unshakably, that all of Will's stuff had really been written by the earl of Oxford.
The scrap's waist-high, inside, drifts of it rising to meet walls that are barely visible behind nameless junk, behind sagging pressboard shelves stacked with old skin magazines and yellow-spined years of National Geographic.