repaper
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- Rhymes: -eɪpə(ɹ)
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repaper (third-person singular simple present repapers, present participle repapering, simple past and past participle repapered)
- (transitive) To apply new wallpaper to, either by first stripping the old wallpaper off, or by papering over the top.
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
- "And you bought the house?" "Well, it was re-papered and painted and fumigated, and done up outside."