paper match
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of paper match
First recorded in 1825–35
Example Sentences
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When his wife was running for chairman of the News unit of the Newspaper Guild, he killed her chances by printing paper match covers boosting her candidacy, distributing them to the staff.
From Time Magazine Archive
The painstaking expense was worth it, producing an antenna that misses, by the thickness of a paper match, being a perfect parabola.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the pupils contracted he saw that the paper match burned brightly, and that the flame flickered!
From The Blue Ghost Mystery by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)
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