papered, ppl. a.
(ˈpeɪpəd)
[f. paper v. + -ed1.]
1. a. Covered, lined, decorated, etc., with paper.
| 1599 T. M[oufet] Silkwormes 56 Their papred boord whereon they take repast. 1785 Peacock in Phil. Trans. LXXV. 368 Slip the papered board..into the recess. 1810 Crabbe Borough xviii. 307 There mark the fractured door and paper'd pane. a 1828 D. Wordsworth Jrnl. (1941) II. 335 The little room so snug—the carpets—the papered walls. 1846 Jewish Manual, or Pract. Information Jewish & Mod. Cookery vi. 158 Bake in a papered tin. 1860 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing ii. 16 Old papered walls of years' standing..are..ready sources of impurity to the air. 1869 E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 127 The ordinary plastered and papered walls. 1977 M. T. Bloom 13th Man ii. 13 The papered corridors had the palpable feel of transitoriness, of waiting to be called—up or out. |
b. slang. Of a theatre, etc.: filled by means of free passes.
| 1936 Amer. Speech XI. 221 The house will be papered, which means that free passes to the show will be given away. 1959 Oxf. Mag. 12 Feb. 244/1 Last week the B.B.C. was able to fill the Festival Hall decently full (even allowing for ‘papered’ seats). 1974 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) 27 Oct. 2-c/3 If there is a large crowd at ringside the suspicion will be a papered house, for the government doesn't want the world to see an empty stadium. |
2. Of insects in a collection, stored in triangular packets made of folded paper.
| 1937 C. Longfield Dragonflies Brit. Isles 27 Preserving the brilliant colours after death is extraordinarily difficult, and for that reason a ‘pinned’ or ‘papered’ collection of dragonflies is often very disappointing. 1955 Wagstaffe & Fidler Preservation Nat. Hist. Specimens I. 187 (caption) Box for storing papered insects. |