PAPERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does papering mean? 

• PAPERING (noun)
  The noun PAPERING has 1 sense:

1. the application of wallpaper

  Familiarity information: PAPERING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAPERING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The application of wallpaper

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

paperhanging; papering

Hypernyms ("papering" is a kind of...):

application; coating; covering (the work of applying something)

Derivation:

paper (cover with wallpaper)

 Context examples 

A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play; and when I draw up the curtain this time, reader, you must fancy you see a room in the George Inn at Millcote, with such large figured papering on the walls as inn rooms have; such a carpet, such furniture, such ornaments on the mantelpiece, such prints, including a portrait of George the Third, and another of the Prince of Wales, and a representation of the death of Wolfe.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)