glassine

English

Etymology

From glass +‎ -ine.

Noun

glassine (countable and uncountable, plural glassines)

  1. A light paper used as interleaving between artworks or stamp album pages.
    • 2024, Scott Alexander Howard, The Other Valley, Atlantic Books (2025), page 7:
      Each illustration was protected by a glassine page that had to be turned delicately.
  2. Smooth, non-absorbing, grease- and moisture-resistant, super-calendered paper.
  3. (philately, usually used as a plural) A small stamp packet made from glassine paper.

Translations

smooth, non-absorbing, grease- and moisture-resistant, super-calendered paper

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