Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun White tissue-paper of good quality.
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Examples
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So I decided on a creamy-looking segment, covered with silver-paper, and showing at the sides a half-inch thickness of what I hoped was custard-cake.
In and Around Berlin Minerva Brace Norton
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How I came there I know not; my conscious existence dates only from the moment in which a silver-paper covering was removed from my face, and the world burst upon my view.
The Doll and Her Friends or Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina Unknown
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They colored and strung popcorn, gilded walnuts, cut silver-paper stars and chains for the tree, and hung strings of cranberries, bright-red apples, and oranges between.
The Witness Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
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Looking up he saw that it came from the platform, from a black woman in pale-blue silk, a short ruffled skirt and silver-paper ornaments in her tightly crinkled hair.
The Happy End Joseph Hergesheimer 1917
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The carpet was unflecked by any scrap of silver-paper.
Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914
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There were innumerable packages in silver-paper and pink ribands.
Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914
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The carpet was unflecked by any scrap of silver-paper.
Zuleika Dobson 1911
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There were innumerable packages in silver-paper and pink ribands.
Zuleika Dobson 1911
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When Flavia reached her own room, there stood on her dressing-table a long silver-paper and filigree box.
From the Car Behind James Montgomery Flagg 1903
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The shrine of the deity that presides over the destiny of fishermen is distinguished by a huge silver-paper fish and numerous three-pronged fish-spears.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894
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