Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "rough paper".
Even though he'd been out an eight-day, the desk looked the same as ever-the two empty wooden boxes, the inkwell and quill stand, the lamp, and a stack of rough paper.
In the silence and the dim light of the lamp he barely needed, Cerryl glanced at his scrawled words on the rough paper, then at the blank parchment before him.
Long hair dripping, he blotted himself dry with some paper towels, gritting his teeth as the rough paper scraped against his abraded skin.
The empty houses of Capsize Cove were in sight like a charcoal drawing on rough paper.
Perhaps the dirty fingers that had held the rough paper - it was writing-paper, not packing-paper or toilet paper, so God knew where it had been obtained.
My hands trembled so much that twice I missed the rough paper of the matchbox.
He drew out another magazine, smaller, bound in rough paper with a stylized linen drawing of a womans private parts on the cover.
Putting the coding sheet in front of him he worked without interruption for perhaps a quarter of an hour, occasionally making simple sums on the rough paper at his elbow.
But finally she had the prices of both of them, and looked up, reaching beneath the counter for a piece of rough paper to wrap them in.