WALLPAPER Definition & Meaning

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wallpaper

[ wawl-pey-per ]

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noun

paper, usually with printed decorative patterns in color, for pasting on and covering the walls or ceilings of rooms, hallways, etc.
any fabric, foil, vinyl material, etc., used as a wall or ceiling covering.
Computers. a design or picture in the background of the primary display screen of a graphical user interface:
Personalize your tablet by changing the wallpaper.

verb (used with object)

to put wallpaper on (a wall, ceiling, etc.) or to furnish (a room, house, etc.) with wallpaper.

wallpaper

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noun

paper usually printed or embossed with designs for pasting onto walls and ceilings
1. something pleasant but bland which serves as an unobtrusive background
2. ( as modifier )
  wallpaper music
computing a graphics file that can be displayed in certain applications behind or around the main dialogue boxes, working display areas, etc, for decoration

verb

to cover (a surface) with wallpaper

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of wallpaper¹

First recorded in 1820–30; wall + paper

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Example Sentences

Brown in her dining room, where she installed peel-and-stick wallpaper to make a statement.

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It has peeling wallpaper, wet walls, large black mould patches and an overwhelming smell of damp.

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Heartened by the fact that my starter hadn’t become putrid wallpaper paste overnight, I began keeping a journal to monitor its progress.

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While the pair were wallpapering a house, Mr Watkins told Dan: "The communities that are the most diverse are the people we want to get rid of, violently preferably."

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He records his first-hand “George Perez Stories” podcast and YouTube videos in a studio wallpapered with every vinyl comedy album he can find.

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