wall-covering

The carpet, wall-covering, and curtains were the same as in the sitting-room.

red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

Perhaps the most potent threat is dioxin, a powerful carcinogen formed by burning PVC, found in cables and wall-covering, wastebaskets and conduits.

Periscope 2007

What he'd seen instead, between long sleeps, were representations of stars scooting through the wall-covering viewvid during the long journey from one edge of the galaxy to the other, 100,000 light years, past one hundred billion stars at 2,000 times the speed of light.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

He knew that the whole room could be repapered for that, and he did not believe the wall-covering was sufficiently damaged for such work to be necessary.

Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle; or, Daring Adventures in Elephant Land Victor [pseud.] Appleton

There were places where re-solidified metal smoked noisomely against nonmetallic floor or wall-covering.

The Aliens Murray Leinster 1935

(Applause) One of the interesting exhibits is a wall-covering made of tappa, which is cloth manufactured by native women from the bark of the paper-mulberry tree.

The British Empire Exhibition, A Study in Geography, Resources, and Citizenship of the British Empire 1924

The bright-green burlap wall-covering in the hallways had faded in less than a year to the color of dry grass.

The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918

But now he stared for five minutes together at the stamped-leather wall-covering of the dining-room.

The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918

This durable wall-covering was interrupted by an alcove-bed with doors now closed, and a cupboard which showed all kinds of china and silver dishes through glass doors.

Paras. 100–199 1917

Her white face and white figure in her wedding dress stood out like a wonderfully painted portrait against the fashionable black chintz wall-covering of the bedroom.

Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley 1901