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Wallpaper   /wˈɔlpˌeɪpər/   Listen
Wallpaper

noun
1.
A decorative paper for the walls of rooms.



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"Wallpaper" Quotes from Famous Books



... a little bewildered by his strange surroundings, and when he became aware of the cheap bed, the flimsy wash-stand, the ugly wallpaper, and thought how far he was from home and friends, he not only sighed, he shivered. The room was chill, the pitcher of water cold almost to the freezing-point, and his joints were stiff and painful from his ride. What folly to come so far into ...
— The Forester's Daughter - A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range • Hamlin Garland
... the one on which he found it most difficult to fix his thoughts. Whenever he did so, the room jerked him back into the circle of its insistent associations. It was extraordinary with what a microscopic minuteness of loathing he hated it all: the grimy carpet and wallpaper, the black marble mantel-piece, the clock with a gilt allegory under a dusty bell, the high-bolstered brown-counterpaned bed, the framed card of printed rules under the electric light switch, and the door of communication ...
— The Reef • Edith Wharton


Words linked to "Wallpaper" :   paper, cover, wallpaperer


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