oilpaper

How to use oilpaper in a sentence

• They are white all over with the exception of the floor, which is covered with thick, yellowish oil-paper.

  Corea or Cho-sen | A (Arnold) Henry Savage-Landor

• The men walking by their sides had conical oil-paper hats, which were equally evidently the original of the Nice hats of my youth.

  Intimate China | Mrs. Archibald Little

• Put it, pencilled side downwards, on the oil paper or note-paper, and rub off with your thumb nail.

  Three Hundred Things a Bright Boy Can Do | Anonymous

• For the moment he is putting oil-paper caps on his rose-bushes.

  A Chambermaid's Diary | Octave Mirbeau

• At first glance it struck Dawson that it was oil paper, or shark's skin.

  Dave Dawson at Casablanca | Robert Sydney Bowen