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
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
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 Robert J. C. Stead
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
“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
