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- noun See
paper .
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Examples
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One called aloud the various articles, while the other checked them off on a piece of dirty wrapping-paper.
CHAPTER 3 2010
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Shown, a wrapping-paper display at McCaulou's Department Store in Napa, Calif.
Wrapping Up: Paper Makers See Rebound Timothy W. Martin 2011
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They've also started offering wrapping paper with up to six colors and heavier paper to maintain its base of regional department store customers like 303-store Belk Inc. Sales have steadied this year, after a three-year nosedive which led to a 40% drop in wrapping-paper, Mr. Fetter said, making him optimistic for the years ahead.
Wrapping Up: Paper Makers See Rebound Timothy W. Martin 2011
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My dad would wait until Christmas Eve to wrap his gifts and would use all of the remaining teeny-tiny scraps, so his gifts always looked like a wrapping-paper quilt of sorts.
Tom Matlack: Memories of Dad at Christmas Tom Matlack 2010
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My dad would wait until Christmas Eve to wrap his gifts and would use all of the remaining teeny-tiny scraps, so his gifts always looked like a wrapping-paper quilt of sorts.
Tom Matlack: Memories of Dad at Christmas Tom Matlack 2010
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Girls Malia's age are crafty and creative enough to make their own decorations using old vinyl records, wrapping-paper tubes and just about anything else their minds can conjure up.
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Many schools rely on so-called turnkey fund-raisers, such as Sally Foster, a gift and wrapping-paper outfit, that induce children to sell products in order to win prizes ranging from plastic straws to iPods.
Little Lomans 2008
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I still love it all, am going carol-singing again this Friday, have been spending happy times with tinsel and ribbon and wrapping-paper, deliberately play Advent and Christmas music as I work, have set up the Crib scene on the mantlepiece as I always do with the Christ-child waiting to be added at Christmastime.
Archive 2008-12-01 Joanna Bogle 2008
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The little clothes-peg angel with her shimmering wrapping-paper wings and the hand-drawn ‘best teacher’ card still bring tears to my eyes as I think about those children, long since grown.
playground love 2006
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But then she would miss the thrill of watching as Michael giggled and jumped up and down and tore the wrapping-paper to shreds.
Father Christmas Arnold, Judith 1997
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