Read full poem →had obtained, with my permission, a photostatic copy. She had also
seen there the carbon copy of a letter to me from Professor J. H.
Woods written shortly after my dissertation had been presented,
Dictionary Entry
A copy produced in an alternated stack of ordinary sheets of paper and carbon papers. The pressure applied on the top sheet (by a pen or typewriter) causes every carbon paper to release its carbon cover, thus reproducing the writing on the
In a Sentence
“In preparing the contract, we'll make a carbon copy for our records.”
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Poetry examples for “carbon copy”
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