English

treasury tags

Noun

treasury tag ‎(plural treasury tags)

1. A short piece of cord with metal bars at each end, used in offices for holding papers together or fastening them into a file.
   • 1990, Martin Booth, Dreaming of Samarkand, Morrow

     From within he took several sheets of paper tied together with a green treasury tag.

   • 2014, Boris Johnson, The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History, Hodder & Stoughton

     He had an aversion to staples and paper clips and therefore preferred documents to be joined by a treasury tag, or, as he put it, ‘klopped’.

Synonyms

• India tag

Translations

External links

• treasury tag on Wikipedia.Wikipedia