ProbableNamed for a product of the place
India paper
noun · first attested 19th century
India paper came from China and Japan; India was only the shipping route.
A very thin, opaque printing paper used for Bibles and compact reference books.
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- Named for a product of the place
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- ProbableThe conventional story is likely, with caveats.
- Attested
- 19th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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India paper
European printers met these thin East Asian papers through the East India Company, so the name followed the route rather than the source. Oxford University Press made its own version famous from the 1870s, which is why thin Bibles are still described as printed on India paper.
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