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wallpaper

[wawl-pey-per] / ˈwɔlˌpeɪ pər /
VERB
paper
Synonyms
STRONG
WEAK
paste up
Antonyms
WEAK


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“Real Housewives” star Shamea Morton added luxe touches like Versace wallpaper, custom furniture and a pink-and-white lounge to her 20,000-square-foot Kingswood house.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

Witkoff has become so ubiquitous in international transactions that his role as the co-founder of Trump’s business has all but faded into the gilt wallpaper of the Oval Office.

From Slate Jul. 22, 2026

That level of period detail extends to Bradbury & Bradbury wallpaper, ball-trim swag valances and wall air vents laser-cut in Moorish patterns.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

For more upscale dining, there is a beautiful formal dining room that features a large table, patterned floral wallpaper, and a unique spiked chandelier that hands at the center of the space.

From MarketWatch Jun. 4, 2026

“Yep. Mom played the golf card. Dad either had to come to this or skip his golf trip on Saturday and go wallpaper shopping. It worked.”

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein

The bathrooms exude charm thanks to their patterned wallpapers.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

He raised the roof of the house he inherited; added wings, a porch and a cupola; and selected—along with his wife, Martha—the interior’s paint colors, wallpapers and furniture.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 7, 2026

"The target market for this is insanely small," he told one user on X last September who questioned his decision to launch a digital wallpapers app.

From BBC Dec. 2, 2025

“Certain colors get canceled out. You have to think about wallpapers, upholstery and drapery fabric. Those are the big things.”

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 12, 2023

He sits with Maxine on the fainting couch, leafing through a coffee table book she’d helped to edit on eighteenth-century French wallpapers, one side of the book resting on each of their knees.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Common to much of the user-generated content are eerie images and haunting stories of mysterious, yellow wallpapered corridors and empty office-like spaces that exist outside of, or beyond, reality itself.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 2026

From wallpapered ceilings and hand-painted murals to lattice-covered walls and dueling kitchen islands, each room is a visual delight, even if it’s not your personal taste.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 17, 2025

Supercharged by TV, American nostalgia developed layers, like a living room wallpapered once a decade.

From New York Times Jan. 15, 2024

Jenkins has designed rooms with wallpapered ceilings featuring elaborate florals, clouds and multicolored, marbleized patterns.

From Seattle Times Jan. 19, 2023

Five minutes later, they call him up into a fifth-floor flat wallpapered with a dizzying floral print.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

If Nickey and Kehoe are working with a lively pattern in a bedroom, for instance, wallpapering a single wall behind the bed may be enough.

From Seattle Times Feb. 28, 2024

She says the company took her and her colleagues on training courses to learn how to to do DIY, such as painting and wallpapering.

From BBC Oct. 7, 2023

These long chains of fractions could stretch out across 15 feet of notebook pages wallpapering his cell.

From Scientific American Jun. 2, 2023

For more than half a century, Reita Green has run her own wallpapering business in and around Los Angeles.

From New York Times Sep. 19, 2022

The mural itself had been damaged in spots by all the wallpapering done over it, so she was not able to make out the artist’s signature.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood




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