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Meanings of deckled in English

Having a rough edge; used of handmade paper or paper resembling handmade.

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        Examples for "deckle-edged"
        1
        Inside was an antique Waterman fountain pen with a filigreed overlay of gold, and a small volume in ribbed leather, with cream-colored, deckle-edged pages.
        White fire
        2
        He regarded the book with intense disfavour, tore it in two, and used a handful of its fine deckle-edged leaves to get the fire going.
        Huntingtower
        1
        Presently he heard the rattle of a stick down the featheredged boarding of the outer walls of the hut.
        The Story of the Foss River Ranch: A Tale of the Northwest
        Usage of deckled in English
        1
        Branches overhead rent the sunlight into jigsaw pieces that fell to ground as a jumble of bright shards and deckled crescents.
        Winter’s Bone
        2
        "I am glad to hear it; but to what circumstance is so deckled a revulsion of sentiment attributable?"
        At the Mercy of Tiberius
        Deckled through the time