"touch-paper" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: touch-papers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} touch-paper (plural touch-papers)
  1. a strip of paper impregnated with nitre, used as a fuse for firing gunpowder, fireworks etc. Translations (a strip of impregnated paper used as a fuse): papier nitraté [masculine] (French), gyutacs (Hungarian), papirnati fitilj (Serbo-Croatian)

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