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wallpapery en · ADJ

Etymology

From wallpaper + -y.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of wallpaper.
   • Most dictionaries are made of paper, glue and ink, from the cheap and ugly paperbacks favoured by schoolchildren, to sumptuous editions, exuding opulence, like that of the Spanish Royal Academy, with its stiff, cream, wallpapery pages […] 2005, Christopher J. Hall, An Introduction to Language and Linguistics, page 95:

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