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Carbon copy   /kˈɑrbən kˈɑpi/   Listen
Carbon copy

noun
1.
A copy made with carbon paper.  Synonym: carbon.






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"Carbon copy" Quotes from Famous Books



... the night train for Pittsburgh. He was back in three days, and that afternoon Mr. Comer, in the privacy of his own office, dictated a letter of which no carbon copy was preserved. He gave it to the young man with his own hand, and with these words: "You'd better think it over carefully, my boy. It's the most idiotic thing I ever heard of, and there isn't one chance in a ...
— Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories • Rex Beach

... even simple cook-book experiments don't seem as cook-bookish. Some pretty weird things have happened when I tried out an exercise prior to the class. Fortunately, I was taught to keep data—in duplicate: indelible purple Hexostick original and carbon copy. These, vide infra, are ...
— On Handling the Data • M. I. Mayfield



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