Meanings
alternative Laminex
- AustraliauncountableA hard plastic laminate, used especially as a surfacing material.First known use 20th c.
I laid the book on a laminex table that sat next to the meat safe […] and turned the cover.
2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 151 more example
It was furnished in early Laminex and the hideous conflict between the polystyrene beams with their regular moulded knot-holes and the wipe-down sterility of puke surfaces made for emotional astigmatism.
1979, Thea Astley, Hunting the Wild Pineapple, Nelson, page 7
Origin
Proprietary name.
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