paper
noun
a substance made from wood pulp, rags, straw, or other fibrous material, usually in thin sheets, used to bear writing or printing, for wrapping things, etc.
repaper
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a word derived from
paper.
Example Sentences
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Mrs. Bill LaRose, after a losing battle against bedbugs, prepared to fumigate, repaint and repaper her sailors' rooming house.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Another thing, to keep her interest in me, if you should decide to repaper my room and want to surprise me, I would be perfectly satisfied with Lucy’s taste.”
From The Girl Scouts Rally Rosanna Wins by Katherine Keene Galt
It is all very well to repaper your dining-rooms, but it is very little good doing that if the drainage is wrong.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren
"Louisa may want to repaper the farmhouse some time," he added to himself.
From Tutt and Mr. Tutt by Arthur Cheney Train
He would repaper the room, and a new carpet was a necessity.
From The Loom of Youth by Alec Waugh
