pressboard

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pressboard - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]