Meanings
plural papeteries
- datedA case or box containing paper and writing materials.
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That evening after all the work was done, the little kitchen in order, the lamps lighted, the big one for the great, wandering ships at sea, and the little one for the quiet, humble family at home, Tilly took out a small papeterie of dark-blue embossed leather, and, opening it with a sigh, said:— "I 'll try to write that letter now, mother."
1878, Helen Hunt Jackson, Saxe Holm's Stories, Second Series, Joe Hale's Red Stockings
Origin
- Frenchpapeterie“paper manufacture”
- Englishpapeterie
From French papeterie (“paper manufacture”), from papier (“paper”).
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