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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

Though strictly a paperhanger by trade, he could be plasterer too when he liked.

From Man and Wife by Collins, Wilkie




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