Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One whose employment is the hanging of wall-papers.

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Examples

  • Worse still, it even prompted a few reporters to go punch up “the Wiki” where they found out about Grampa Bush's “Charles Foster Kane” - ish craven cuddling up to history's murderous little paper-hanger.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • Worse still, it even prompted a few reporters to go punch up “the Wiki” where they found out about Grampa Bush's “Charles Foster Kane” - ish craven cuddling up to history's murderous little paper-hanger.

    The Fall Of The House Of Bush 2008

  • Tell you what – you go right on trusting Iran – after all, you are just a hop, skip and plop away from them…I would as soon trust a failed, meglomaniacal Austrian paper-hanger as I would Achmidinejead and his band of radical mullahs….

    Think Progress » Hersh: Bush, Cheney Stovepiping Intelligence On Iran, Hiding Information From CIA 2006

  • Tell you what – you go right on trusting Iran – after all, you are just a hop, skip and plop away from them…I would as soon trust a failed, meglomaniacal Austrian paper-hanger as I would Ahmidinejad and his band of radical mullahs….

    Think Progress » Hersh: Bush, Cheney Stovepiping Intelligence On Iran, Hiding Information From CIA 2006

  • Mary North was the daughter of a journeyman paper-hanger and a descendant of President Tyler.

    Tender is the Night 2003

  • "I am a paper-hanger, a painter, and a maid-of-all-work; and this is what it usually means to be a lady when you are poor."

    The Pleasant Street Partnership A Neighborhood Story Mary F. Leonard

  • If you need to call in the carpenter, the plumber, the paper-hanger, or the stoveman, try to have him come when the children are at home, and let them satisfy their intense curiosity as to his work.

    Study of Child Life Marion Foster Washburne

  • But all at once, just as the paper-hanger goat was about to pick up the roll, Mr. No-Tail awakened and was quite surprised to discover where he was.

    Bully and Bawly No-Tail Howard Roger Garis 1917

  • The goat paper-hanger took his shears, and his brushes, and his stepladders, tying them on his horns, and away he went with the man.

    Bully and Bawly No-Tail Howard Roger Garis 1917

  • Mr. Ladley moved to the back parlor to let the paper-hanger in the front room, smoked and fussed with his papers all day, and Mr. Holcombe stayed in his room, which was unusual.

    The Case of Jennie Brice Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

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