Definition of "wire-wove" [wire-wove]

• Noting a glazed paper of fine quality, used chiefly for letter-paper.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "It is from the great book of Nature, the same through a thousand editions, whether of black-letter, or wire-wove and hot-pressed, that I have venturously essayed to read a chapter to the public."
• "The wire-wove mattress is of great advantage both for comfort and for coolness; and here in"
• "It was in this way that Homer, the great old ballad-maker of Greece, wrote -- or rather chanted, for in his day pens were scarce, wire-wove unknown, and the pride of Moseley undeveloped."