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onionskin

NOUN
  1. a thin strong lightweight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies

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  • An onionskin -like structure of concentric dust shells surround a central, aging star. Twin beams of light radiate from the star and illuminate the usually invisible dust.
  • Great writerly in-jokes, (onionskin paper, for one), and a hearty fuck-you to those who dare to carp about what they can never grasp, it supersedes genre toys to achieve world-class architecture even while maintaining the clearest voice I've seen since Hemingway, Vonnegut, or Harper Lee. "Grow till tall. They all, in the end, will fall."
  • Freights were lined in and out of the yard, train orders were copied on onionskin off the sounder (and hooped up to the crews), switches were lined and signals set.
  • Michael Cimino and Bo Goldman's screenplay is so thin and transparent it could have been printed on onionskin.
  • And on the lame "Bushleaguer," he takes some swipes at the president, then tosses off some spoken-word poetry that recalls Jim Morrison at his drunkest, flabbiest and closest to death: "The immenseness of suffering/And the odd negotiation, a rarity/With onionskin plausibility of life and a keyboard reaffirmation. We've Heard Vedder
  • I immediately had copies made at great expense because it was typewritten on onionskin paper in the 1940s.
  • The second is a seven page document attributed to the Office of Scientific Intelligence in 1976, this is a photocopied onionskin document titled UFO Sovereignty Over Air Space: A Defense Intelligence Problem.
  • Zl's golden coma had three "onionskin" hoods, the enormous curved dust tail was silver, and the rippling ion tail shone blue with red wisps. Perseus Spur
  • He was talking about OneSwarm, a new P2P network with built-in onionskin routing. OneSwarm: here’s V 0.6. RIAA: DAMN!
  • Inside was a sheet of onionskin typing paper, the kind that's slippery but crinkles.
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