Thread-paper
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A piece of thin soft paper for wrapping up a skein of thread.
"[H]e takes the opportunity of sauntering up to my dressing-room, where he plays with the children, picks up my thread-paper, insists upon bringing me new music, and on reading to me some novel or poem, with which he is generally furnished."
Example
More examples"[H]e takes the opportunity of sauntering up to my dressing-room, where he plays with the children, picks up my thread-paper, insists upon bringing me new music, and on reading to me some novel or poem, with which he is generally furnished."
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