parabeik

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A form of parabaik — The traditional form of paper in Burma, made of daphne bark agglutinated into a kind of pasteboard and blackened with charcoal paste, then folded and written on with a steatite pencil.

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nounparabeik (plural parabeiks)

plural parabeiks

  1. alternativeAlternative form of parabaik.

    Though a certain kind of paper is manufactured from bamboo pulp, the usual material of the books is the palm leaf, while for ordinary notebook purposes a kind of black tablet, called a parabeik, and a steatite pencil are employed.

    1876, "Burmah" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 556
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