[f. CARD sb.2 + BOARD.] Pasteboard of the thickness of card, for cutting cards from, or for making boxes and the like. Also attrib. in cardboard box, etc.
1858. in Simmonds.
1863. Wynter, Subtle Brains & Lissom Fingers, 309. The rooms in which the portraits are gummed on cardboard and packed up.
1879. Print. Trades Jrnl., XXVIII. 16. They are printed on stout, fine cardboard.
