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1 — Hist.
a town projected but not always actually founded.
Quotations
1819
On this river . . . is General Simcoe's paper town called London [Upper Canada].
1883
Passing through lively scenery . . . we arrive at Menota once famous in the days of paper towns as Dobbin City.
2
a town or city where paper manufacturing is the dominant industry.
Quotations
1957
Logging camps, mills, paper towns, the new aluminum town of Kitimat, the copper mines of Britannia, the salmon canneries, the milkshed of Fraser Valley . . . pour their products into Vancouver.