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paperhanger

[pey-per-hang-er] / ˈpeɪ pərˌhæŋ ər /
NOUN
counterfeiter
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Benjamin Twaddle, a 66-year-old paperhanger from Lynn, was admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston four years ago, with advanced cancer of the prostate which had spread widely through his body.

From Time Magazine Archive

I suggested that we go over in the corner and ask God to send us a paperhanger and while we were praying a man came into the mission.

From Time Magazine Archive

In lieu of payment for the paperhanging job, Hance worked out a reconciliation between the paperhanger and his estranged wife.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had come to office just 33 days after Adolf Hitler, the Austrian paperhanger, had taken over Germany.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was finished by the following night, for no paperhanger could have had the heart to linger over his work with so many anxious eyes following every movement.

From Dandelion Cottage by Rankin, Carroll Watson




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