parabaik

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parabaik

Etymology

Borrowing from Burmese ပုရပိုက် (pu.ra.puik).

Noun

parabaik (plural parabaiks)

  1. 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.
  2. A document or drawing executed on this kind of paper.

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