paper stainer

English

Noun

paper stainer (plural paper stainers)

1. (archaic) A printer who makes patterned wallpaper.
   • 1845, B[enjamin] Disraeli, chapter VIII, in Sybil; or The Two Nations. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, book V, page 101:

     "All the north is seething," said Gerard. "We must contrive to agitate the metropolis," said Maclast, a shrewd carroty-haired paper-stainer.