Meanings
- Having a deckle edge.
From-time to time the book tilted and wobbled in his lap, and the weight of the deckle-edged pages pressed on his erection through the sleek black nylon.
2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 11, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN - figurativelyRough-edged like uncut paper.
We turn a corner and the world becomes a pattern of arteries, splashed with silver and deckle-edged with shadow.
1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine, Faber, page 116
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivehaving a rough edge; used of handmade paper or paper resembling handmade
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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