"back gray" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: back grays [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} back gray (plural back grays)
  1. (US, printing, textiles, historical) A piece of dark, heavy cotton cloth that is run under another piece of cloth to be printed, serving to take up the color on the roller outside the width of the print cloth. Tags: US, historical Categories (topical): Printing, Textiles

Inflected forms

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