Definition of "cream-laid" []

• Of a cream color and laid, or bearing linear water-lines as if laid: applied to paper. See laid.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "He summoned the creature from the dish with a thought; obedient to his will, it hovered above a pristine sheet of cream-laid vellum."
• "But when they did arrive, preparations for calligraphy were made on a great scale; a volume of Gibbon was taken down, new quill pens, large and small, and steel pens by various makers were procured; cream-laid paper was provided, and ruled lines were put beneath it."
• "Weights and Measures there was an elegant little chamber, carpeted, furnished with leathern-bottomed chairs, and a clock, supplied with cream-laid note-paper, new pens, and the Times newspaper, quite a little Elysium, in which to pass half an hour, while the"