thread-paper

noun

Definitions

  1. A piece of thin soft paper for wrapping up a skein of thread.

    • [H]e takes the opportunity of sauntering up to my dressing-room, where he plays with the children, picks up my thread-paper, insists upon bringing me new music, and on reading to me some novel or poem, with which he is generally furnished.
    • And you, God bless me, you're only a thread-paper!

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for thread-paper. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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