repaper
- 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 Galt, Katherine Keene
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 Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
A Pisan housekeeper will even repaper the rooms after the death of a consumptive patient.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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 Lunt, George
