paperchase
nounEtymology From paper + chase.
1
A cross-country race in which a trail of shredded paper marks the route.
2
Broadly An administration process involving cross-references between many documents; the following of a paper trail.
3
Figuratively Any long line of white objects or things.
- He lit his first cigarette, a Balkan and Turkish mixture made for him by Morlands of Grosvenor Street, and watched the small Waves lick the long seashore and the fishing-fleet from Dieppe string out towards the June heat-haze followed by a paper-chase of herring-gulls.1953, Ian Fleming, “L’Ennemi Écoute”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 28: