thread-paper
nounDefinitions
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!
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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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