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  • noun Plural form of paperhanger.

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Examples

  • The bloggers are like one-armed paperhangers with a surfeit of stories to explore.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Dan 2007

  • The bloggers are like one-armed paperhangers with a surfeit of stories to explore.

    Gangs or no gangs, that is the question Dan 2007

  • Three weeks after arriving home, Hay arranged to go up to Lake Sunapee alone, ostensibly to put an end to the dawdling of carpenters, painters, and paperhangers.

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

  • By the middle of January, Henry was sufficiently settled in his new house at 1603 H Street to offer the Hays a place to stay until the carpetlayers and paperhangers finished their work next door.

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

  • Three weeks after arriving home, Hay arranged to go up to Lake Sunapee alone, ostensibly to put an end to the dawdling of carpenters, painters, and paperhangers.

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

  • By the middle of January, Henry was sufficiently settled in his new house at 1603 H Street to offer the Hays a place to stay until the carpetlayers and paperhangers finished their work next door.

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

  • Like one-armed paperhangers, Wright had said, and Reacher was completely ready to believe him.

    Bad Luck and Trouble Child, Lee 2007

  • Like one-armed paperhangers, Wright had said, and Reacher was completely ready to believe him.

    Bad Luck and Trouble Child, Lee 2007

  • One would think, that these crazed carpet chewing paperhangers, would think about what they are doing.

    Think Progress » Right-Wing Radio Host Fabricates Controversy To Attack First Muslim Congressman 2006

  • If painters, paperhangers, and upholsterers could make happiness as well as splendour, I should be interested about their proceedings in

    The Woman in White 2003

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