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repaper

  • a word derived from paper.

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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

A decorator was called in to repaper the bathroom and kitchenette, but for the living-room Grant engaged a carpenter.

From Dennison Grant: a Novel of To-day by Stead, Robert J. C.

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

He would repaper the room, and a new carpet was a necessity.

From The Loom of Youth by Waugh, Alec

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