ppl. a. (occas. -woven.) [f. WIRE sb. + WOVE, pa. pple. of WEAVE v.]
1. Denoting a very fine kind of paper used chiefly for letter-paper. (See WOVE.)
1799. Spirit Publ. Jrnls., III. 65. The splendours of gold leaf, wire-wove paper, and Morocco leather.
1808. [W. Gifford], Heroic Epist. Winsor, Advt. to Rdr. I intend to print the Text upon a fine wire-woven hot-pressed paper.
1877. S. Redgrave, Descr. Catal. Water-Col. Paintings, 17. The papers … were chiefly of the description termed wire-wove.
2. Made of woven wire.
1888. Builder, 3 Nov., 326/2. The roof of the Aquarium was being covered … with … ‘Patent Wire Wove Roofing.’
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., II. 169. A horse-hair mattress … supported on a chain or wire-wove under-mattress.
