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paper-knife en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of paperknife.
   alt 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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