onion skin

They had onion skin traces made of all bombers returning from raids, as to where they'd been hit by anti-aircraft and enemy fire.

Another performance of the day was the distribution of strips of white onion-skin paper.

This they managed to pry open with a knife, and the explorer pulled out a tiny, many-folded map of onion-skin paper.

Yes, sir; I put another piece in there because it is on onion skin.

"There's a lot of this stuff I don't dig," Benson said, tapping the sheets of onion-skin.

There is a very thin, tough wove paper, much like that familiarly known as "onion-skin," which is called pelure by philatelists.