Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Paper, usually decorated in color, used for pasting on walls or ceilings of rooms; paper-hangings.
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Examples
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Your mother's chitter-chatter segues into wall-paper and you try to remember where you parked the car, whether it's pulled in nice and tight in the garage or whether you left it curbside, afraid the garage door lifting at god-knows-when would wake mom, but you can't remember, you don't remember much of anything, not driving, not stumbling up the stairs, not sleeping.
Unintended Consequences Linda Simoni-Wastila 2011
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Here are a few wall stickers ideas from Sticasa, unique and stylish wall stickers are great substitutions for wall-paper, pictures, and posters and can breathe new life to spaces in your home or office at minimal cost and impact.
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I have a suggestion. how about Wall-Paper? if i were you, i would had better use wall-paper than painting.
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But despite their absence and questionable legacies, our hamsters lived on in student library Mrs. Drach kept at the back of our classroom, with each of my carefully printed stories stapled between two sheets of wall-paper and the title etched across the cover with a black Sharpie.
Velcro Shoes, a Cardboard Computer, and Other Signs of Brilliance Casey McGrath 2011
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One day I plan to cover a whole wall with "T" tracks so that all the CD's front covers are used to "wall-paper" the wall.
Advisor: What should I do with my high school CD collection? Boing Boing 2010
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Ko Dali's daughter spoke for the first time, and I was surprised how high and yet husky her voice was - the kind that makes you think of French satin sofas, with the blinds down and purple wall-paper.
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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Suddenly Rubashov's eye was caught by a square patch on the wall lighter than the rest of the wall-paper.
Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010
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He looked sleepy in a way that Specials never did, as if he were wall-paper, just another pretty.
Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet Scott Westerfeld 2010
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The lesson was about more than learning to hang wall-paper.
Make Miracles in Forty Days Melody Beattie 2010
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Finally buy wall-paper border we've been looking at for 2 years.
Archive 2006-06-01 ScienceWoman 2006
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