paper stainer

noun

A printer who makes patterned wallpaper.

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Meanings

nounpaper stainer (plural paper stainers)

plural paper stainers

  1. archaicA printer who makes patterned wallpaper.

    "All the north is seething," said Gerard. "We must contrive to agitate the metropolis," said Maclast, a shrewd carroty-haired paper-stainer.

    1845, B[enjamin] Disraeli, chapter VIII, in Sybil; or The Two Nations. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, book V, page 101
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