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
A young girl said her paperhanger husband had a hard time finding a job because of paper-mill shutdowns.
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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.
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He is as busy as the classic one-armed paperhanger.
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He was a paperhanger among other things, and a great pair of shears had been lying on the table.
From Manslaughter by Miller, Alice Duer
