watch paper

English

Noun

watch paper (plural watch papers)

1. An old-fashioned ornament for the inside of a watch case, made of paper cut in some fanciful design, such as a vase of flowers, etc.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “watch paper”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)