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**Humanities & Arts Dictionary**

 







 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

Definition

A translucent design or pattern impressed into a sheet of paper during manufacture—typically by a wire pattern in the paper mould—visible by transmitted light and used as material evidence for identification, dating, attribution, or authentication of paper and documents.