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Definition of "wall-paper" []

  • Paper, usually decorated in color, used for pasting on walls or ceilings of rooms; paper-hangings. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "wall-paper" in a sentence
  • "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."
  • "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."
  • "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."