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paperhanger

[pey-per-hang-er] / ˈpeɪ pərˌhæŋ ər /
NOUN
counterfeiter
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A young girl said her paperhanger husband had a hard time finding a job because of paper-mill shutdowns.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Kansas City, Mo., another one-armed paperhanger caught another case of hives.

From Time Magazine Archive

His family emigrated to the U.S. when he was nine and settled at Bayonne, N.J., where his father became a paperhanger, a trade that Burns learned as a schoolboy.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is as busy as the classic one-armed paperhanger.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the ballroom set, where the flats or walls were all in place, an unexcited paperhanger was busy with the paraphernalia of his craft, somehow looking out of his element in this reign of pandemonium.

From The Film Mystery by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)