- wallpaper
- I. noun Date: 1827 decorative paper for the walls of a room II. verb Date: 1918 transitive verb to provide the walls of (a room) with wallpaper intransitive verb to put wallpaper on a wall
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
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