Definition of "papering" [pa•per•ing]

• Present participle of paper. (verb)

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• "She should have abandoned the idea of papering her walls, and retained our talented friend, Stanwood Pelgram, to paint them, instead."
• "After an October tryout in Stamford and a New York opening of still doubtful reception, when the production hung between life and death and all the well-known exigencies of oxygen were applied in the form of "papering" the house with two weeks of free tickets, press-agenting, _et al. _, the public decided to like it."
• "Indeed, the first attempts at "papering" over the cracks in recent months have proved disappointing, on an aesthetic level as well as on a practical level."