paper stainer
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[edit]Noun
[edit]paper stainer (plural paper stainers)
- (archaic) A printer who makes patterned wallpaper.
- 1845, B[enjamin] Disraeli, chapter VIII, in Sybil; or The Two Nations. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, book V, page 101:
- "All the north is seething," said Gerard. "We must contrive to agitate the metropolis," said Maclast, a shrewd carroty-haired paper-stainer.