
下敷き = desk pad ?
下敷きはノートなどに挟んで使うものです。

I've never heard an English word for 下敷き, and I don't think I've ever seen them outside of Japan.
It's a thin piece of hard plastic (usually about B5 in size) that people slide under the page they are currently writing on so the page underneath doesn't get any indentations.
Do a Google Image search and you can see what they look like.

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