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brown paper
  1. A coarse stout kind of paper made of unbleached materials; chiefly used for wrapping.

1542 in Glasscock Rec. St. Michael's Bp. Stortford (1882) 43 Item for browne paper for the seid orgons. 1611 Cotgr., Papier marchand, browne paper (wherein Tradesmen fould vp their Wares). 1772 Gentl. Mag. XLII. 192 Course brown paper, such as pedlars use. a 1848 Marryat R. Reefer v, [He] would..clap the vinegar and brown paper on my bruises.

  2. Comb. and attrib., as brown-paper parcel, etc. brown-paper warrant (see quot.).

1610 Histriom. iv. 194 The gentlemen see into our trade, We cannot gull them with brown-paper stuff. 1691 Lond. Gaz. No. 2701/4 Any Brown-Paper-Maker may be furnished with what Quantity of Course Rags..they please. 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 719 Brown-paper warrants, those given by a captain, and which he can cancel. 1885 Law Times' Rep. LII. 736/2 [He] sent him a brown-paper parcel.

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