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• note-paper

Noun

notepaper ‎(plural notepapers)

1. Relatively small writing paper used for writing notes or letters; often provided with matching envelopes.
   • 1897, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:

     I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.

   • 1977, Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, Part I, chapter4:

     An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.

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