blotting paper

a soft, absorbent, unsized paper, used especially to dry the ink on a piece of writing.

Origin of blotting paper

First recorded in 1510–20

The weight need not be very heavy and the blotting-paper should frequently be renewed.

What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes |Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Josiah Lethbridge looked down at the blotting-paper upon which he had been tracing grotesque figures without speaking.

The Passion for Life |Joseph Hocking
Tod had laid hold of a piece of blotting-paper and was pulling it to pieces.

Johnny Ludlow, Fifth Series |Mrs. Henry Wood
The blotting-paper, of course, is taken out with the waste sheet before the joint is pasted down.

Bookbinding, and the Care of Books |Douglas Cockerell

Mr. Greeley still sticks to wafers and sand, instead of using mucilage and blotting-paper.

Lights and Shadows of New York Life |James D. McCabe

blotting paper

a soft absorbent unsized paper, used esp for soaking up surplus ink