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
At last he allowed her to repaper the room.
From The Case of Richard Meynell by Mrs. Humphry Ward
The landlord received their thanks very composedly; and let them think, if they liked, that he had relented from his expressed determination not to repaper.
From North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
"Louisa may want to repaper the farmhouse some time," he added to himself.
From Tutt and Mr. Tutt by Arthur Cheney Train
Not many years since it was concluded to repaper the hall, the walls of which were covered with several thicknesses of paper which had from generation to generation been pasted one upon another.
From Old New England Traits by George Lunt
