paper-knife

A form of paperknife — A knife for cutting paper or opening envelopes.

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Meanings

nounpaper-knife (plural paper-knives)

plural paper-knives

  1. alternativeAlternative form of paperknife.

    The same nervous staccato laugh broke from her thin lips, and her fingers began to play with a long tortoise-shell paper-knife.

    1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter IV, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 67
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APA

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Chicago

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