paste-in, a. and n.
(ˈpeɪstɪn)
[f. paste v. 5 + in adv. 1.]
A. adj. Pasted in, inserted by pasting. Also, of a scrapbook, etc., containing blank paper on which cuttings or pictures may be pasted. B. n. A correction or illustration printed separately from the main text of a book, and attached to the relevant page by its inner edge being pasted to the margin.
| 1902 Daily Chron. 30 June 3/3 Seeking the cause of this paste-in fly leaf. 1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 436A (heading) Paste-in Albums for Photographs, &c. 1939 Library XIX. 486 When, more than a month after the publication of the Lyrical Ballads, 1800, Wordsworth received copies of Volume II, he was greatly irritated to find that the lower half of page 210..was blank... There exist at least two specimens of a paste-in supplying the fifteen missing lines... Each of the two specimens is pasted to the inner margin of page 211 to open out onto the blank on page 210. 1960 Times 13 Oct. 15/7 Where paste-ins have become puckered, wavy lines must be expected. 1971 L. M. Harrod Librarians' Gloss. (ed. 3) 488 Paste-in. 1. A correction or addition to the text supplied after the sheets have been printed, and tipped into the book opposite the place to which it refers... 2. A separately printed illustration or map, cut to the size of the book, and the inner edge pasted into the text before gathering. |