Esparto in english

Esparto

pronunciation: espɑrtoʊ part of speech: noun
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esparto = esparto ; esparto grass ; rope-fibre. 

Example: The situation was probably similar in Britain, except that very little straw pulp was used, and a considerable amount of esparto.Example: The article of international commerce was, not paper, but the raw materials from which paper was made: rags, esparto grass, and wood pulp.Example: The boards were generally made of wood up to the later fifteenth century; then of sheets of paper pasted together ('pasteboard'); and then, from the early eighteenth century in good-quality binding but later in cheap work, of rope-fibre millboard.

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» papel de espartoesparto paper [En imprenta, papel que contiene en su totalidad o en gran parte celulosa de esparto] .

Example: Esparto paper, which is bulky and easy to print on, was made in commercial quantities in Britain from 1863, and quickly became popular with British printers who used it increasingly for bulking out thin books.
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