Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who applies paper to anything; one who covers (as a wall in paperhanging) with paper, wraps (as needles) in paper, or inserts (as pins) in a paper.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One whose occupation is decorating walls with wallpaper.
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- noun
Agent noun of the verb, topaper ; A person who hangswallpaper .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one whose occupation is decorating walls with wallpaper
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Examples
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When we reached the wall-paperer's lair we were ushered by an immaculate personage into a room that looked more like the dining-room of a private house than a part of business premises.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 15, 1917 Various
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For me, I am worried to the last degree: the painter, preparatory to the paperer, instead of rendering/[Page 293]/himself here at six in the morning, has kept me expecting him till now - just when I am going up to town to 'see after my affairs.'
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Bobbet, our dependence and best paperer, fell down on a apple parin 'and hurt her ankle jint, so's she couldn't stand on a barell for more'n several days.
Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 5 Marietta Holley 1881
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Bobbet, our dependence and best paperer, fell down on a apple parin 'and hurt her ankle jint, so's she couldn't stand on a barell for more'n several days.
Samantha Among the Brethren, Complete Marietta Holley 1881
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She said her husband was a house-paperer in a small way, and when he was out of employment she used to go out in the evening and see what her singing would bring her.
Records of a Girlhood Fanny Kemble 1851
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Having Leslie's quest to take down the local teenage toilet paperer work as a co-plot to Anne's Halloween party is something
Cinema Blend Feeds 2009
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Having Leslie's quest to take down the local teenage toilet paperer work as a co-plot to Anne's Halloween party is something
Cinema Blend Feeds 2009
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