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
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
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
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 Charles Knight
At last he allowed her to repaper the room.
From The Case of Richard Meynell by Mrs. Humphry Ward
