1. A size or make of paper watermarked with the figure of a crown.
1630. J. Taylor (Water P.), Wks. (N.). And may not dirty socks from off the feet From thence be turn’d to a crowne-paper sheet?
1807. Opie, Lect. Art, IV. (1848), 323. Writing … upon crown, double elephant, or foolscap paper.
† 2. A paper containing five shillings’ worth. Obs.
1672. Collins, in Rigaud, Corr. Sci. Men (1841), I. 201. To manage the Farthing Office, to deliver out all, that are coined … in crown-papers ready tied up.
