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
The absence of tax, and the improvement of the manufacture by machinery, have enabled every man to repaper his filthy and noxious room for almost as little as its whitewashing or colouring will cost him.
From Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Knight, Charles
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
At last he allowed her to repaper the room.
From The Case of Richard Meynell by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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 Maclaren, Alexander
