pasteboard

noun

ˈpās(t)-ˌbȯrd How to pronounce pasteboard (audio)
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a small sheet of plastic, paper, or paperboard showing that the bearer has a claim to something (as admittance) those pasteboards I got from a scalper cost me four times their face value

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Recent Examples of pasteboard It is filled with antiques from the earliest period when the family of Francis Watlington — a sea captain, harbor master and state legislator — resided here, including a game table set with 19th century pasteboard playing cards. — Elaine Glusac, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2024 Her three magnificent novels about the life and times of Thomas Cromwell—Henry VIII’s fixer-in-chief, who oversaw England’s rupture with the Church of Rome—stripped the robes of cliché and hindsight from one of history’s pasteboard ogres. — Boyd Tonkin, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2022 As MacRumors reminds us, Apple introduced a privacy feature in iOS 16 which forces apps to ask permission before accessing your pasteboard to paste content from other apps. — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 19 Sep. 2022

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