Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun White tissue-paper of good quality.

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Examples

  • So I decided on a creamy-looking segment, covered with silver-paper, and showing at the sides a half-inch thickness of what I hoped was custard-cake.

    In and Around Berlin Minerva Brace Norton

  • How I came there I know not; my conscious existence dates only from the moment in which a silver-paper covering was removed from my face, and the world burst upon my view.

    The Doll and Her Friends or Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina Unknown

  • They colored and strung popcorn, gilded walnuts, cut silver-paper stars and chains for the tree, and hung strings of cranberries, bright-red apples, and oranges between.

    The Witness Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

  • Looking up he saw that it came from the platform, from a black woman in pale-blue silk, a short ruffled skirt and silver-paper ornaments in her tightly crinkled hair.

    The Happy End Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • The carpet was unflecked by any scrap of silver-paper.

    Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914

  • There were innumerable packages in silver-paper and pink ribands.

    Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914

  • The carpet was unflecked by any scrap of silver-paper.

    Zuleika Dobson 1911

  • There were innumerable packages in silver-paper and pink ribands.

    Zuleika Dobson 1911

  • When Flavia reached her own room, there stood on her dressing-table a long silver-paper and filigree box.

    From the Car Behind James Montgomery Flagg 1903

  • The shrine of the deity that presides over the destiny of fishermen is distinguished by a huge silver-paper fish and numerous three-pronged fish-spears.

    Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

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