Crossword-Solution: PELURE
We have 5 clues for the answer “PELURE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Crisp, thin paper. | 1 answer |
| ___ paper, used for postage stamps | 1 answer |
| Thin paper | 4 answers |
| A COLLECTOR AND STUDENT OF POSTAGE STAMPS | 11 answers |
| PAPER, type of | 21 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
EARA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with PELURE (5)
There is a very thin, tough wove paper, much like that familiarly known as "onion-skin," which is called pelure by philatelists.
Wright's edition, published by Pickering: "I knew nevere Cardinal That he ne cam fra the Pope; And we clerkes, whan thei come, For hir comunes paieth, For hir pelure and hir palfreyes mete, And pilours that hem folweth.
The pelure paper seems naturally to be the one on which the greatest variation in dimensions occurs, the _long_ and _broad_ size of the stamp coming principally on the thicker paper,[48] which is supposed to shrink the least upon drying and therefore keeps the printed impression nearest the size of the plate impression.
The paper upon which the series of 1868 was printed was in general an ordinary white wove variety which varied considerably from a very thin, almost pelure quality to a quite hard and thick variety.
Wyclyf speaks of a priest “in pompe and pride, coveitise and envye, with fatte hors, and bridelis ryngynge be (by) the weye and himself in costly clothes and pelure (fur).” In every wealthy household the falcon was as much of a domestic pet as the dog.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1942–1997).