laminex

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noun

A hard plastic laminate, used especially as a surfacing material.

RareFirst used 20th c.Scrabble 16

Meanings

nounlaminex (uncountable)

alternative Laminex

  1. 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 15
    1 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

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