papyrus
- n paper made from the papyrus plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat; used by ancient Egyptians and Greeks and Romans
- n tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times
- n a document written on papyrus
- This might not work with paper, but papyrus is tougher.
- Last week episodes like these were half revealed, half suggested, in two papyrus leaves and one small papyrus scrap from a collection of Greek writings acquired in Egypt lately .
- A 3,000-year-old papyrus fragment housed in a museum in Turin, Italy, recounts the trial of a thief who was caught in the Valley of the Kings.