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Meanings of onionskin in English

A thin strong lightweight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies.

Usage of onionskin in English
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We then record the event as traces on a sheet of onionskin paper.
One of our Thursdays is missing
2
She hung up and pulled a thin sheet of onionskin paper from the envelope.
Beneath a southern sky
3
Claws tore through her thick woolen cloak as if it were flimsy as onionskin.
The river kings' road
4
Pregnant with Max, she sees him through the translucent onionskin that is her stomach.
Saving max
5
His thin arms, pale as onionskin, lay atop the blankets.
Pandemonium
6
I fingered the envelopes and smoothed the onionskin.
Fugitive pieces
7
And then I came upon a letter printed in black ink on a thin piece of onionskin.
Body work
8
She asks him to accept this letter, written on onionskin paper, for full credit as a term paper.
The new yorker
9
In Beijing, International Operator Yu finished filling out the little onionskin form with its six layers of carbon.
Lost in translation
10
Professor Plum pulled the single sheet of onionskin from the annihilation chamber and looked at it, brows knitted.
One of our Thursdays is missing
11
Kilgore's Bible was a small red leather-bound thing, thumbed into softness with onionskin pages that flapped, fluttered, and stuck together.
Rogues
12
In the twinkling light of the now fully decorated Christmas tree, Emily flipped through the old onionskin pages of her notebook.
Pretty Little Secrets
13
He stayed very calm, was pleased to see that his hand was steady as it turned the onionskin pages of the file.
The bourne objective
14
The preacher closed the Bible with a slow and profound delicacy as if the ink on the onionskin were susceptible to smearing.
Serena
15
We wended our way through a half-kilometer of racks and hit upon the Onionskin outlet.
Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel
16
Let's go to Onionskin.
Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel
Onionskin through the time