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/wˈɔtərmˌɑrk/ Listen

Watermark

noun

A line marking the level reached by a body of water. Synonym: water line.

A distinguishing mark impressed on paper during manufacture; visible when paper is held up to the light.

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"Watermark" Quotes from Famous Books

... very deliberately. Beaumont-Greene shivered; with difficulty he clenched his teeth, so as to prevent them clicking like castanets. Then Warde held up the sheet of paper to the light of the lamp. Obviously he wished to examine the watermark. The paper was thin notepaper, the kind that is sold everywhere for foreign correspondence. Beaumont-Greene, economical in such matters, had bought a couple of quires when his people went abroad. The paper he had bought did not quite match the Roman envelope. Warde opened ...

— The Hill - A Romance of Friendship • Horace Annesley Vachell

... come to me which gives an entertaining glimpse of the average ability of a class. "John Stubbs x his mark" is obviously "low-watermark," but there are levels between that and high-school possibilities which we cannot often measure. The note is written on fair white paper and had a white envelope. The writer is American, the wife of a fisherman, and ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, September 1880 • Various

Words linked to "Watermark" : low-water mark, high-water mark, marking, mark, line, marker, water line