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Discover LudwigThe phrase "carbon paper" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a thin paper coated with carbon or a similar material, used for making copies of handwritten or typed documents. Example: "I needed to make a copy of the invoice, so I placed a sheet of carbon paper between the original and the clean sheet of paper."
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carbon paper
noun
Paper with one of the faces impregnated with carbon, used to make carbon copies.
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He went into carbon paper, then building lumber.
We were used to typewriters, carbon paper and outdoor plumbing, too, but we got over it.
Carbon paper is folded into an abstract nocturnal, and viscous oil is applied to slinky Lycra.
A few minutes later, Ms. Oring packed up her typewriter, her rubber stamps, her carbon paper.
Fifteen years from now, we'll recall videotapes the way we already remember typewriters and carbon paper.
The arcane mysteries of carbon paper were passed from typist to typist.
Maybe the library was going the way of carbon paper, an artifact of the predigital age.
And guaranteed pensions are going the way of typewriter ribbons and carbon paper.
Inmates must use carbon paper: the jails like copies of all outgoing post.
Carbon paper allows two copies of a document to be made at once.
Not long ago, I was disgraced by a package of carbon paper.
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