paperhanger
Example Sentences
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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
In Kansas City, Mo., another one-armed paperhanger caught another case of hives.
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A young girl said her paperhanger husband had a hard time finding a job because of paper-mill shutdowns.
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In lieu of payment for the paperhanging job, Hance worked out a reconciliation between the paperhanger and his estranged wife.
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"By the way, Dimple, I forgot to tell you that possibly the paperhanger might be here; he was to come one day this week to paper the upper hall."
From A Sweet Little Maid by Blanchard, Amy Ella
