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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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(Paseburde,) Paisbu(i)rd, n. Also: pas-, passe-, pace-, paisse-, pess- and -bord, -boord, -board, -brod. [Sc. variant of e.m.E. paste-borde (1548–9), payste-boorde (1562), f. paste (see Paste n.¹): also Pase n. and Paste n.²]Chiefly written as one word.

Pasteboard: a kind of board made by pasting sheets of paper together; a sheet of this.Also comb.(1) 1608 Tailor's Acc. Bk. A. 66.
For paisbuird to it [sc. a doublet] ij s. 1662–3 Peebles B. Rec. II. 203.
Paisbord 1681 Colvil Whig's Suppl. i. 36.
Courtiers … With paisboard mending legs and hips 1687 Bk. Old Edinb. C. XXVII. 145.
I glewd the parchment and paseboord and made a brace till 8 1691 Misc. Bann. C. III. 264.
Ane book … bund in pacebord 1699 Bk. Old Edinb. C. XXV. 67.
Two stone of paisboardcomb. 1685 New Mills Manuf. 105.
Two or three hundred pessboard pepers(2) 1606 Edinb. Test. XLII. 108.
The … inuentar of the guidis, geir [etc.] … [of] Henry Charterhous prentar … certane pais brodis estimat to xx s. 1612 Ib. XLVII. 132.
Tuelf dosane of pais brodis at xviij s. the dosane 1618 Ib. L. 133. 1627 Ib. LIV. 134.
xviiij dosone pasbrodis at 13 s. 9 d. the dosone(b) 1608 Tailor's Acc. Bk. A. 69.
For ane paisbuird to the nek 1616 Edinb. Test. XLIX. 162 b.
Ane gros paisbuirdis 1616–17 Edinb. B. Rec. VI. 371.
Item for paper, threid, creill bandis and ane paisbuird 1617 M. Works Acc. (ed.) II. 91.
For mae paisboordis weyre and vinager 1631 Tailor's Acc. Bk. B. .
Paisburd 1665 Inv. Pictures in Clerk of Penicuik MSS. (Reg. H.) 3 (1 Jan.).
The picture of 2 religious old men, done on a paisseboard in blak and whyt 1686 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. XIII. 58.
[A] bill for prohibiting the importing of course paper and paisboords … pressing paper and passeboords