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Do the walls over
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repaper
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vb. To replace old wallpaper with new wallpaper, usually on walls, either by first stripping the old wallpaper off, or papering over the top.
Usage examples of repaper.
At first he meant to repaper the room, but afterwards he said that I was letting it get the better of me, and that nothing was worse for a nervous patient than to give way to such fancies.
The house where a consumptive has lived should be disinfected, repapered or calcimined, and thoroughly cleaned before it is again occupied.
Tuesday night, bored and itchy, she repapered the upstairs bathroom with the wallpaper that Doug had liked.
The walls of the latter had not been repapered for years, and the floors were covered with odd scraps of linoleum.
He knew that the whole room could be repapered for that, and he did not believe the wall-covering was sufficiently damaged for such work to be necessary.
If there had been wallpaper handy, she just might have repapered the store the way she had jokingly said to Kerry.
The hall had been repapered large mustard-yellow flowers on curlicue stalks and new hall carpet too.
Werner wanted to have it repapered and refurbished as a surprise for you but I said it would be better to ask you first.
I had stripped the paper from the wall next to the window, put liquid wood filler in the two bullet holes there, then sanded them over and repapered the cypress planks.
The hallway had been repapered, but there were still smudged spots on the ceiling plaster to remind her of the fire.
Gissing, rather pathetically, that she intended to have the whole house repapered in the fall.
But in such things as rehanging the pictures, deciding on a summer boarding-place, taking a seaside cottage, repapering rooms, choosing seats at the theatre, seeing what the children ate when she was not at table, shutting the cat out at night, keeping run of calls and invitations, and seeing if the furnace was dampered, he had failed her so often that she felt she could not leave him the slightest discretion in regard to a flat.
The walls of the latter had not been repapered for years, and the floors were covered with odd scraps of linoleum.
He knew that the whole room could be repapered for that, and he did not believe the wall-covering was sufficiently damaged for such work to be necessary.